Schools of Fiction Literature and the Making of the American Educational System

Schools of Fiction Literature and the Making of the American Educational System
- ISBN 13:
9780192867506
- ISBN 10:
0192867504
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/09/2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Reading literature in class is a paradoxical undertaking that, according to Day Frank, has proved foundational to the development of American formal education over the last two centuries, allowing the school to claim access to a social world external to itself. By drawing attention to the transformative effect literature has had on the school, Schools of Fiction challenges some of our core assumptions about the nature of cultural administration and the place of English in the curriculum. The educational system, Day Frank argues, has depended historically on the cultural objects whose existence it is ordinarily thought to govern and the academic subject it is ordinarily thought to have marginalized.