Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States

Author:   Jean Ferguson Carr ,  Stephen L. Carr ,  Lucille M. Schultz ,  Robert Brooke
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
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9780809326112


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Both a historical recovery and a critical rethinking of the functions and practices of textbooks, Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States argues for an alternative understanding of our rhetorical traditions. The authors describe how the pervasive influence of nineteenth-century literacy textbooks demonstrate the early emergence of substantive instruction in reading and writing. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, few people in the United States had access to significant school education or to the materials of instruction. By century's end, education was a mass - though not universal - experience, and literacy textbooks were ubiquitous artifacts, used both in home and in school by a growing number of learners from diverse backgrounds. Archives of Instruction suggests strategies for re-reading the texts and details the watersheds in the genre, providing a new perspective on the material conditions of schooling, book publication, and emerging practices of literacy instruction. The volume includes a substantial bibliography of works related to literacy instruction at all levels of education in the United States during the nineteenth century.

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Author:   Jean Ferguson Carr ,  Stephen L. Carr ,  Lucille M. Schultz ,  Robert Brooke
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.377kg
ISBN:  

9780809326112


ISBN 10:   0809326116
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Jean Ferguson Carr, an associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh, is the coeditor of the Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture. Stephen L. Carr is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Lucille M. Schultz is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools, winner of the 2000 Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association of Ohio.

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