Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College / by Mary Dockray-Miller.
Dockray-Miller, Mary, author.
2017
PN661-PN694
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Title Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College / by Mary Dockray-Miller.
Author Dockray-Miller, Mary, author.
ISBN 9783319697062
3319697064
3319697056
9783319697055
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69706-2
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XII, 153 pages 14 illustrations, 10 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-69706-2 doi
Call Number PN661-PN694
Dewey Decimal Classification 800
Summary 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, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large. Analysis of college curricula and biographies of female professors demonstrates the ways that women used Anglo-Saxon as a means to professional opportunity and political expression, especially in the suffrage movement, even as that legitimacy and respectability was freighted with largely unarticulated assumptions of racist and sexist privilege. The study concludes by connecting this historical analysis with current charged discussions about the intersections of race, class, and gender on college campuses and throughout US culture.
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Series New Middle Ages.
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1 'Anglo-Saxon' in Late Nineteenth-Century American Academia
2 Anglo-Saxon and Academic Opportunities for Women, Civil War-WWI
3 Racism, Medievalism, and Anglo-Saxon
4 Anglo-Saxonists as Public Medievalists.

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