Pleasures Memory Learning Read by Winter Sarah (28 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels, otherwise in very good, unmarked condition. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. xiii, 455 pp. Illustrated. Original illustrated glossy black wrappers. Light spinal creasing else this is a tight, fine book.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 486 pages. 8.43x5.85x0.73 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: New. 486.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as 'English.' Winter shows how Dickens's serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens's serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens's celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into 'mass' populations served by state school systems, Dickens's beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnSarah Winter is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.KlappentextrnrnWhat are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just.

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Condition: New. Num Pages: 486 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794. . 2011. Hardback. . . . .

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 448 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.12 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 486 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794. . 2011. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Gebunden. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnSarah Winter is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.KlappentextrnrnWhat are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as 'English.' Winter shows how Dickens's serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens's serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens's celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into 'mass' populations served by state school systems, Dickens's beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.…