Useful knowledge : the Victorians, morality, and the march of intellect /
A statement on how "knowledge" is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Knowledge and the novel
- Food for thought : the dissemination of knowledge in the early nineteenth century
- Science in the popular novel : Jane Webb Loudon's The mummy!
- The monstrous body of knowledge : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Lessons learned in class : Charlotte Brontë's The professor
- The tailor transformed : Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke
- Destiny as an unmapped river : George Eliot's The mill on the floss.