Plots of enlightenment : education and the novel in eighteenth-century England / Richard A. Barney.
Plots of enlightenment : education and the novel in eighteenth-century England / Richard A. Barney.
Plots of enlightenment : education and the novel in eighteenth-century England / Richard A. Barney.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1999.
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N823.50935/2
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English
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xii, 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Early Modern Identity and the Rise of Improvisational Fictions -- 1. Lockean Education, Narrative Metaphor, and the Inflections of Gender -- 2. Theatrical Education and the Thickening of Plot -- 3. Pedagogical Politics and the Idea of Public Privacy -- 4. Robinson Crusoe, Education, an...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1999.
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California
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c1999.
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"Plots of Enlightenment explores the emergence of the English novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of "modern" English citizenship for both men and women." "This book considers how the period's diverse forms of educational writing (including chapbooks, conduct books...
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Plots of enlightenment : education and the novel in eighteenth-century England / Richard A. Barney.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-383) and index.
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N823.50935/2
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74VvAXXOggp3
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0804729786 (alk. paper)
9780804729789 (alk. paper)
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823.509355
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991013580849702626
