1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911093640803321

Autore

Samuels Shirley

Titolo

A Companion to American Fiction : 1780 - 1865

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Disciplina

813.309

813/.209

Soggetti

American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction

American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century

American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts; 1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood; 2 Fiction and Democracy; 3 Democratic Fictions; 4 Engendering American Fictions; 5 Race and Ethnicity; 6 Class; 7 Sexualities; 8 Religion; 9 Education and Polemic; 10 Marriage and Contract; 11 Transatlantic Ventures; 12 Other Languages, Other Americas; PART II Forms of Fiction; 13 Literary Histories; 14 Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic

15 The American Gothic16 Sensational Fiction; 17 Melodrama and American Fiction; 18 Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other ''Crossings'' in Fictionalized Slave Narratives; 19 Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction; 20 Law and the American Novel; 21 Labor and Fiction; 22 Words for Children; 23 Dime Novels; 24 Reform and Antebellum Fiction; PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes; 25 The Problem of the



City; 26 New Landscapes; 27 The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E. D. E. N. Southworth

28 Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy29 Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's ''Rip Van Winkle''; 30 New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land; 31 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism; 32 Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery; 33 The West; 34 The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris

35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration Consid



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911132089503321

Autore

Borg Simon <1965->

Titolo

Teacher cognition and language education : research and practice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

9781472526953

1472526953

9781474219983

1474219985

9781472525048

1472525043

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury classics in linguistics

Disciplina

418.007

418.0071

Soggetti

Curriculum planning

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Language teachers - Training of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The Origins of Teacher Cognition Research -- 2. The Cognitions of Pre-service Language Teachers -- 3. The Cognitions of In-service Language Teachers -- 4. Teacher Cognition in Grammar Teaching -- 5. Teacher Cognition in Literacy Instruction -- 6. Self-Report Instruments -- 7. Verbal Commentaries -- 8. Observation -- 9. Reflective Writing -- 10. A Framework for Studying Language Teacher Cognition -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The study of teacher cognition -- what teachers think, know and believe -- and of its relationship to teachers' classroom practices has become a key theme in the field of language teaching and teacher education. This new in paperback volume provides a timely discussion of the research which now exists on language teacher cognition. The first part of the book considers what is known about the cognitions of pre-service and practicing teachers, and focuses specifically on teachers' cognitions in teaching grammar, reader and writing. The



second part of the book evaluates a range of research methods which have been used in the study of language teacher cognition and provides a framework for continuing research in this fascinating field. This comprehensive yet accessible account will be relevant to researchers, teacher educators and curriculum managers working in language education contexts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.