The "miracle worker" and the transcendentalist
Subtitle: Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller
By: David Wagner
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781594519369
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Deafblind people; Education; Transcendentalism (New England); Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Sanborn's younger days 1831-1865; title: The post Civil War North: triumphant for some; title: "Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school"; title: Yankee administrators and Irish populism; title: Keller and Sullivan: world fame and local hostility 1887-1892; title: The attack on Keller and Sullivan in the early twentieth century; title: Progressivism and radicalism in the 1910s; title: Generations, class, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the conflict; title: Epilogue: Keller and Sullivan's later years.