American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education

Clemens Spahr

doi:10.5771/9781793649553

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4954-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4955-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 154
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. Universal Education No access
2. The Problem of Audience No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Rule of Practice No access
2. Public Monstrosities No access
3. Greene Street School No access
4. Boston Conversations No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Critique of Privilege: The Boston Quarterly Review No access
2. Imagined Audiences: The Dial No access
3. Popular Education: The New-York Tribune No access
4. Notes No access
1. Emerson’s Audiences No access
2. Thoreau’s Practicality No access
3. Douglass’s Representativity No access
4. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 135 - 148
Index No access Pages 149 - 152
About the Author No access Pages 153 - 154