Description: Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man by Cathy Shuman Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description "Pedagogical Economies is a sophisticated, original, illuminating study of the examination's cultural centrality in Victorian England."Prose Studies Publisher Description The examination's arbitrariness and cultural bias, its association with a normalizing surveillance, and its ridiculous attempts to quantify the unquantifiable have been perfectly obvious to generations of authors, educators, and even bureaucrats—yet it still dominates both British and American education systems.This book explores the examination's figurative power for nineteenth-century discourses of subject formation and value through readings of works by Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, writers who were active during the 1850s and 1860s, when the examination began to structure a range of British institutions, from the working-class primary school to the Indian Civil Service.Although they routinely resisted the spread of formal educational testing, their work reveals a fascination with the examination's unique ability to make reading and writing visible as value-able labor. As an element in literary discourse—as topos, plot structure, and figurative intersection—the examination remaps relations between the subject and knowledge, the person and the state, masculine self-discipline and feminine self-sacrifice, and intellectual and money economies. The book thus speculates on institutional, sexual, and economic aspects of Victorian professional gentility, as well as contributing to recent debates on Arnold's seductive stupidity, Trollope's "mechanical" realism, Dickens's bourgeois critique of capitalist exchange, and Ruskin's ambivalent attachment to schoolgirls.Theeconomic, erotic, and institutional relationships implicit in educational testing and the debates surrounding it continue to trouble literary critics as well as scholars, administrators, and teachers. "Pedagogical Economies" can thus shed light on current questions about the relationship between school and society. Author Biography <div>Recently an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University, Cathy Shuman is now Index Editor for the Teaching of Literature at the Modern Language Association International Bibliography.</div> Details ISBN 0804737150 ISBN-13 9780804737159 Title Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man Author Cathy Shuman Format Hardcover Year 2002 Pages 272 Publisher Stanford University Press GE_Item_ID:142428389; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780804737159
Book Title: Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Pedagogical Economies : the Examination and the Victorian Literary Man
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Cathy Shuman
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
