All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.
| ISBN: | 9780521155618 |
| Publication date: | 21st July 2011 |
| Author: | Marianne Lunds Universitet, Sweden Thormählen |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 318 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.
The Brontës and Education features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
The Brontës and Education is available in Paperback
The Brontës and Education was written by Marianne Lunds Universitet, Sweden Thormählen and published by Cambridge University Press
The Brontës and Education has 318 pages
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