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The young composers : composition's beginnings in nineteenth-century schools

Title: The young composers : composition's beginnings in nineteenth-century schools / Lucille M. Schultz.
Author: Schultz, Lucille M., 1943-
Publication: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1999.

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Description

xiv, 218 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Lucille M. Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction." "Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American Schools is much more important than we have previously assumed in the overall history of writing instruction."
"Drawing on primary materials that have not been considered in previous histories of writing instruction - little-known textbooks and student writing that includes prize-winning essays, journal entries, letters, and articles written for school newspapers - Schultz shows that in nineteenth-century American schools, the voices of the British rhetoricians that dominated college writing instruction were attenuated by the voice of the Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Partly through the influence of Pestalozzi's thought, writing instruction for children in schools became child-centered, not just a replica or imitation of writing instruction in the colleges."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Uniform Title

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Telling Our Stories -- 1. The Beginnings of Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Schools -- 2. First Books of Composition -- 3. "No Ideas but in Things" -- 4. The Agency of Textbook Iconography -- 5. Textual Practices of the Young Composers -- Conclusion: "We Say to Him, Write!" -- App. 1. Tables of Contents from John Frost's Easy Exercises (1839) and George Quackenbos's First Lessons (1851) -- App. 2. Three Student Readings of an Illustration, 1886 -- App. 3. Student Essay: June 20, 1846 -- App. 4. Excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Autobiography, Eighty Years and More.

ISBN

0809322366
9780809322367

LCCN

98021923

OCLC

ocm39223586
39223586
SCSB-8859391

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library