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Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:

Taylor, Corey

Abstract:

In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

—Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays