American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education
Abstract
American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott’s Temple School and Fuller’s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.
Schlagworte
19th century literature American literary history History of education educational reform literary sociology- i–x Preface i–x
- 1–16 Introduction 1–16
- 101–130 Chapter 4: Public Intellectuals: The Romantic Lecture, Professionalization, and Politics 101–130
- 131–134 Conclusion 131–134
- 135–148 Bibliography 135–148
- 149–152 Index 149–152
- 153–154 About the Author 153–154