Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature : National and Transatlantic Contexts (Hardcover)

Introduction Monika M.Elbert and Lesley Ginsberg Part I: Transcendental Education 1. Romantic Reform and Boys: Bronson Alcott’s Materialist Pedagogy Ken Parille and Anne Mallory 2. Teaching Transcendentalism in Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Aesthetic Papers Ricardo Miguel Alfonso 3. Educating Jo March: Plumfield, Romanticism, and the Tomboy Trajectory in the Alcott Trilogy Kristen Proehl 4. Imagination and Apocalypse: Christopher Cranch’s Novels for Young Readers Bruce Ronda Part II: Romantic Education: Origins and Legacies 5. Susanna Rowson and Early Romantic Pedagogies Lorinda B. Cohoon 6. Puppetmasters and Their Toys: Transformation of Tabula Rasa in Tales of Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Baum Holly Blackford 7. Storytelling and the Law: Performance Pedagogy in the Novels of E.D.E.N. Southworth Joyce Warren 8. ‘What has the artist done about it?’: Jane Addams, Educational Reform, and the Work of Art Anne Bruder Part III: Race and Romantic Pedagogies 9. Race and Romantic Pedagogies in the Works of Lydia Maria Child Lesley Ginsberg 10. Rhetoric or Romance? Opposition and Progress in Frederick Douglass’s Re-Presentations of Literacy Wendy Ryden 11. Upholding and Subverting Didacticism: Antislavery Iconography and the Abolitionist Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Valerie D. Levy 12. The ‘Indian Problem’ in Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Authorship: Gender and Racial Identity Tensions Unsettling a Romantic Pedagogy Sarah Ruffing Robbins Part IV: Romantic Pedagogies and the Resistant Child 13. Engendering Fantasy in Romantic Children’s Fiction Derek Pacheco 14. Nineteenth-Century Pedagogies of Unruly Childhood: Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, Twain Carol Singley 15. Lessons Learned: Genre and Paternal Desire in Martha Finley’s Elsie Dinsmore Series Allison Giffen 16. Narratives of Teaching and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature Monika M. Elbert