Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century

by Alves, Jaime Osterman

• ISBN13: 9780203878415
• ISBN10: 0203878418
• Copyright: 2009-03-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Miss Schooled: Representing Adolescent Female Education in Nineteenth-Century America

ôOh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a masterö: Negotiating Domestic Education in Elizabeth StoddardÆs The Morgesons

To Teach and to Cure: Medical Interventions into Female Education and Oliver Wendell HolmesÆs Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny

Reading, Writing, and Re-presenting: The Newspaper and the Schoolgirl in the Wreath of Cherokee Rosebuds and S. Alice CallahanÆs Wynema: A Child of the Forest

ôHow shall we ever get out of slavery?ö: Frances E. W. HarperÆs Trial and Triumph and Black Female Education in the Post-Reconstruction Era

Epilogue: Telling Tales Out of School

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