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The moral electricity of print : transatlantic education and the Lima women's circuit, 1876-1910 /

"Moral electricity--a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept wasn't strictly an American idea, of course, and Ronald Briggs introduces us to one of the greatest examp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Briggs, Ronald, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Aesthetics of the Cosmopolitan Teacher
  • 1. Independence and the Book in Subjunctive
  • 2. Exemplary Autodidacts
  • 3. Collective Feminist Biography
  • 4. Novelistic Education, or, The Making of the Pan-American Reader
  • 5. Educational Aesthetics and the Social Novel
  • Conclusion: Publication as Mission and Identity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.