Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools In Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century, though often now forgotten.

• | By (Author): Allison Speicher
• | Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2016
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0817319166
• | ISBN-13: 9780817319168