Reading Victorian schoolrooms
Subtitle: childhood and education in nineteenth-century fiction
By: Elizabeth Gargano
Series: Children's literature and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780415980340
Subjects: Education in literature; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Children's stories, English -- History and criticism; Children in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index
Table of contents: title: "The idea of a wall" : toward a new architecture of school and mind; title: From Felix's cottage to Miss Temple's parlor : domestic instruction and the paradox of the teacher's room; title: Level playing fields and locked gardens : nature at school; title: The view from the sickroom window : zymosis, brain fever, and the dangers of institutional education