Reading Victorian schoolrooms : childhood and education in nineteenth-century fiction

Reading Victorian schoolrooms : childhood and education in nineteenth-century fiction / Elizabeth Gargano.

Author/creator	Gargano, Elizabeth
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Routledge, ©2008.
Description	xv, 195 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Education in literature. English fiction--19th century --History and criticism. Children's stories, English--History and criticism. Children in literature.

Series	Children's literature and culture Children's literature and culture. ^A1008050
Contents	"The idea of a wall" : toward a new architecture of school and mind -- From Felix's cottage to Miss Temple's parlor : domestic instruction and the paradox of the teacher's room -- Level playing fields and locked gardens : nature at school -- The view from the sickroom window : zymosis, brain fever, and the dangers of institutional education.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index.
LCCN	2006101157
ISBN	9780415980340 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0415980348 (hardback : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR 878.E38 G37 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold