Novel Schooling

Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-66857-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot and character, and the latter in individual potential. Despite this basic parallel, these forms of development are at odds in many works of fiction that treat education as constrictive and even traumatic to the individual, rather than healthy and formative. identifies a pervasive pattern in novels from the 19th to 21st centuries: writers ranging from Charles Dickens and D.H. Lawrence to Zadie Smith reject conventional modes of education and propose their own models for shaping the sensibilities of their characters and readers. These works critique institutional education as a point of departure to position reading fiction as a superior form of individual development. Using the new ethics and reader-response theory, this work traces the treatment of education in and through the novel, concluding with fresh assertions of the value of literature in a digital, market-driven world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chalk, Bridget T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Education in and through the Novel.- Chapter 2: Reading as “Fancy and Consolation” in .- Chapter 3: D.H. Lawrence, Schoolteachers, and Novel Guidance.- Chapter 4: How to Read in .- Chapter 5: Coetzee’s Fictions of Deformation.- Chapter 6: Paying Attention with Zadie Smith.- Chapter 7: Coda: Formation and Disintegration in Ferrante’s

Über Autor(innen)

Bridget Chalk is Professor of English at Manhattan College, USA, where she teaches modernism and twentieth and twenty-first-century British and Anglophone literature. is her second scholarly monograph; her previous book, (2014) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Bridget has also published  essays on modern and contemporary fiction in ,  , , and elsewhere, as well as having contributed a chapter to , (2019).