| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-292) and index. |
| Contents |
The education of the people -- The improvement of the mind -- Household education versus school training -- Parents and children -- Professional educators in the home -- Schools and schooling -- A sound English education -- Religion and education -- The accomplishments -- Male and female education -- Beyond the schoolroom: reading and the Brontes -- Pedagogical purposes and principles -- Schoolroom practices -- Docility and originality -- Liberty and responsibility. |
| Summary |
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. |
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Education in literature.
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Education in literature. |
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Educational equalization -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Educational equalization. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thormählen, Marianne, 1949- Brontës and education. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521832892 (DLC) 2007282400 (OCoLC)137222325 |
| ISBN |
9780511290244 (electronic book) |
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0511290241 (electronic book) |
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9780511287008 (electronic book) |
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0511287003 (electronic book) |
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0511289642 (electronic book) |
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9780511289644 (electronic book) |
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9780511484940 (ebook) |
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0511484941 (ebook) |
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9780521832892 (hardback) |
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0521832896 (hardback) |
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9786610917051 |
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6610917051 |
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