Novel Schooling Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction

This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot and character, and the latter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chalk, Bridget T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Education in and through the Novel
  • Chapter 2: Reading as “Fancy and Consolation” in David Copperfield
  • Chapter 3: D.H. Lawrence, Schoolteachers, and Novel Guidance
  • Chapter 4: How to Read in To the Lighthouse
  • Chapter 5: Coetzee’s Fictions of Deformation
  • Chapter 6: Paying Attention with Zadie Smith
  • Chapter 7: Coda: Formation and Disintegration in Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend