
Archives of Instruction
Nineteenth-century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States
Southern Illinois University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-8093-2611-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 145 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2611-2 (9780809326112)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Jean Ferguson Carr | Stephen L. Carr | Lucille M. Schultz
Archives of Instruction
Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States
E-Book
02/2005
1st Edition
Southern Illinois University Press
€58.99
Available for download
Persons
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.