Author: Robert Folkestone Williams
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Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Secret Passion
Author: Robert Folkestone Williams
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Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Young Visiters
Author: Daisy Ashford
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897337891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897337891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing.
The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A compendious English grammar
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference ...: The new universal gazetteer; or, Geographical dictionary ... By Edwin Williams ... 4th ed
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Author: Sheila Cordner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131714581X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Sheila Cordner traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked chapter in the history of thought about education. This book considers an influential group of writers - all excluded from Oxford and Cambridge because of their class or gender - who argue extensively for the value of learning outside of schools altogether. From just beyond the walls of elite universities, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing used their position as outsiders as well as their intimate knowledge of British universities through brothers, fathers, and friends, to satirize rote learning in schools for the working classes as well as the education offered by elite colleges. Cordner analyzes how predominant educational rhetoric, intended to celebrate England's progress while simultaneously controlling the spread of knowledge to the masses, gets recast not only by the four primary authors in this book but also by insiders of universities, who fault schools for their emphasis on memorization. Drawing upon working-men's club reports, student guides, educational pamphlets, and materials from the National Home Reading Union, as well as recent work on nineteenth-century theories of reading, Cordner unveils a broader cultural movement that embraced the freedom of learning on one's own.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131714581X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Sheila Cordner traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked chapter in the history of thought about education. This book considers an influential group of writers - all excluded from Oxford and Cambridge because of their class or gender - who argue extensively for the value of learning outside of schools altogether. From just beyond the walls of elite universities, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing used their position as outsiders as well as their intimate knowledge of British universities through brothers, fathers, and friends, to satirize rote learning in schools for the working classes as well as the education offered by elite colleges. Cordner analyzes how predominant educational rhetoric, intended to celebrate England's progress while simultaneously controlling the spread of knowledge to the masses, gets recast not only by the four primary authors in this book but also by insiders of universities, who fault schools for their emphasis on memorization. Drawing upon working-men's club reports, student guides, educational pamphlets, and materials from the National Home Reading Union, as well as recent work on nineteenth-century theories of reading, Cordner unveils a broader cultural movement that embraced the freedom of learning on one's own.
Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference
Author: Samuel Maunder
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Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Lady of the Lake
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Lady of the Lake (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Lady of the Lake (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Tytler's history of Scotland
Author: Patrick Fraser Tytler
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A dictionary of quotations from various authors in ancient and modern languages
Author: Hugh Moore
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Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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The Athenæum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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