Fictions of female education in the nineteenth century
By: by Jaime Osterman Alves.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780415996761
Subjects: Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Education in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Oh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a master": negotiating domestic education in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons; title: To teach and to cure: medical interventions into female education and Oliver Wendell Holmes's Elsie Venner, a romance of destiny; title: Reading, writing, and re-presenting: the newspaper and the schoolgirl in the wreath of Cherokee Rosebud's and S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, a child of the forest; title: "How shall we ever get out of slavery?": Frances E. W. Harper's trial and triumph and black female education in the post-reconstruction era; title: Epilogue: telling tales out of school.