{"id":136987,"date":"2018-09-06T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=136987"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:20:44","slug":"lorentzen-publishes-article-on-dickens-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2018\/09\/06\/lorentzen-publishes-article-on-dickens-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorentzen Publishes Article on Dickens and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Associate Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen published an article in&nbsp;<em>Dickens Studies Annual<\/em> on Dickens and education entitled &ldquo;<em>This Schoolroom is a Nation<\/em>: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The catechistic method was a popular form of the rote memorization pedagogy which dominated Victorian schools, and sought to keep at-risk learners content with their marginalized social positions.&nbsp; In fact, this educational praxis became so popular that its tactics were embraced by many figures desiring social power beyond the schoolroom, a point upon which Dickens dwells at considerable length throughout his texts.&nbsp; This essay surveys a few varieties of catechistic primers that were designed for these disciplinary functions, and examines some of the more infamous ways catechism was utilized in early nineteenth-century British literature.<\/p><p>Subsequently, the essay scrutinizes the almost overwhelming number of instances of the catechistic method in Dickens&rsquo;s novels to demonstrate both his critique of this question and answer power dynamic, and the ways in which his characters deploy, evade, co-opt, and subvert the ideological directives of catechism, as they strive for their own liberation and agency.&nbsp; By recognizing the evolution of Dickens&rsquo;s critique of catechistic method, both in and beyond the arena of the Victorian classroom, Lorentzen argues that we can much better appreciate the extent of the novelist&rsquo;s cautionary tales about the ways in which education functioned as a normalizing force of social control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen published an article in&nbsp;Dickens Studies Annual on Dickens and education entitled &ldquo;This Schoolroom is a Nation: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens.&rdquo;The catechistic method was a popular form of the rote memorization pedagogy which dominated Victorian schools, and sought to keep at-risk learners content with their marginalized social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28565,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[379,14533],"class_list":["post-136987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-elorentz","tag-elorentzumw-edu-eric-lorentzen","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}