Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College

by Mary Dockray-Miller

This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319697056
• ISBN13: 9783319697055
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"