Syllabus of lectures on the history of education, with selected bibliographies

Their challenges are not radical, programmatic, or sustained; they tend to capitulate to existing power arrangements. Yet intimations of resistance remain latent in acts of collusion. Defying codes for literary and moral respectability, amatory fictions invite us to turn a critical eye on our tendency to organize experience according to exclusionary categories. They offer us a chance to imagine alternatives to the rigid roles of victim and oppressor, and to understand history-social or literary-not as a process of competitively «rising» and «falling» groups or genres, but as a narrative of reciprocal pleasures, shared anxieties, and promiscuously mingling bodies and voices. Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers Selected Bibliography Armstrong Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Ballaster Ros. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. Beasley Jerry C. "Politics and Moral Idealism: The Achievement of Some Early Women Novelists." In Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, eds., Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670–1815 ...»