Novel Schooling: Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction - Hardcover
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Novel Schooling: Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction
This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot and character, and the latter in individual potential. Despite this basic parallel, these forms of development are at odds in...
Bridget Chalk is Professor of English at Manhattan College, USA, where she teaches modernism and twentieth and twenty-first-century British and Anglophone literature. Novel Schooling is her second scholarly monograph; her previous book, Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience (2014) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Bridget has also published essays on modern and...
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