This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism–the memory of the crusades and
crusading rhetoric and imagery–in Britain, from Walter Scott's The Talisman (1825) to the …

From broad movements for social change to the quiet routines of everyday life, education
has long been at the centre of British working-class culture. Like many others resisting …

In light of their nineteenth-century political economies, why did poor, agricultural Denmark
become a leader in public, mass primary education (1814) and a multiple-track education …

Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions:
education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school …

This paper examines the ways in which turn-of-the-century British socialists enacted
socialism for children through the British Socialist Sunday School movement. It focuses in …

This chapter examines crusading fiction written by author-educators from 1825 to 1917 and
demonstrate how the crusades served as a vehicle of enculturation for the empire's youth …

This thesis examines the fissiparity of Socialist groups in the last two decades of nineteenth-
century Britain. I reject the predominant view in scholarship that their inability to coalesce …

The Politics of 1930s British Literature Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 The Politics of 1930s British
Literature Page 4 Historicizing Modernism Series Editors Matthew Feldman, Professor of …

Description of project: Literary narratives beginning in 1700 illuminate why poor, rural
Denmark developed early, public mass primary education and extensive vocational training …

In the mid-nineteenth century, the formative potential of literature was seized upon by
Evangelical Christians who produced lessons in morality and stories of exemplary …