| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCTION; PART II: CASE STUDIES; Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"; Afterword; Appendixes; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca.
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
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Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
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Hemans, Mrs, 1793-1835. |
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. |
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Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. |
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Poetry -- Social aspects.
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Poetry -- Social aspects. |
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Recitation (Education)
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Recitation (Education) |
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robson, Catherine, 1962- Heart beats. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012 9780691119366 (DLC) 2012005139 (OCoLC)777002223 |
| ISBN |
9781400845156 (electronic book) |
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1400845157 (electronic book) |
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0691119368 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691119366 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691119366 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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