Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in by Elizabeth Gargano
By Elizabeth Gargano
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the varied schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels in the course of the fraught period of the Victorian schooling debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers akin to Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll mirrored common Victorian anxieties in regards to the speedy institutionalization of schooling and the shrinking realm of family guideline.
As faculties more and more mapped out a schema of time schedules, standardized grades or kinds, separate disciplines, and hierarchical architectural areas, formative years improvement additionally got here to be noticeable as regularized and standardized in response to transparent developmental different types. but, Dickens, Brontë, and others didn't easily critique or satirize the standardization of faculty adventure. in its place, so much portrayed the schoolroom as an volatile website, incorporating either institutional and household space.
Drawing at the bildungsroman’s conventional occasion of an individualized, experiential schooling, quite a few novels of college lifestyles strove to offer the radical itself as a kind of household schooling, unlike the trials of institutional guideline. via positioning the unconventional as a sort of family schooling presently lower than assault, those novelists sought to verify its price as a kind of protest inside of an more and more institutionalized society. The determine of the kid as a logo of beleaguered innocence therefore grew to become relevant to the Victorian fictive undertaking.
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