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• catalog abstract ""The examination's arbitrariness and cultural bias, its association with a normalizing surveillance, and its ridiculous attempts to quantify the unquantifiable have been perfectly obvious to generations of authors, educators, and even bureaucrats - yet it still dominates both British and American education systems." "Pedagogical Economies explores the examination's figurative power for nineteenth-century discourses of subject formation and value through readings of works by Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin. These writers were active during the 1850s and 1860s, when the examination began to structure a range of British institutions, from the working-class primary school to the Indian Civil Service." "Although they routinely resisted the spread of formal educational testing, these authors reveal a fascination with the examination's unique ability to make reading and writing visible as value-able labor. As an element in literary discourse - as topos, plot structure, and figurative intersection - the examination remaps relations between the subject and knowledge, the person and the state, masculine self-discipline and feminine self-sacrifice, and intellectual and money economies. This book thus speculates on institutional, sexual, and economic aspects of Victorian professional gentility, as well as contributing to recent debates on Arnold's seductive stupidity, Trollopes' "mechanical" realism, Dickens's bourgeois critique of capitalist exchange, and Ruskin's ambivalent attachment to schoolgirls." "The economic, erotic, and institutional relationships implicit in educational testing and the debates surrounding it continue to trouble literary critics as well as scholars, administrators, and teachers. Pedagogical Economies can thus shed light on current questions about the relationship between school and society."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12054015.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Although they routinely resisted the spread of formal educational testing, these authors reveal a fascination with the examination's unique ability to make reading and writing visible as value-able labor. As an element in literary discourse - as topos, plot structure, and figurative intersection - the examination remaps relations between the subject and knowledge, the person and the state, masculine self-discipline and feminine self-sacrifice, and intellectual and money economies.".
• catalog description ""The examination's arbitrariness and cultural bias, its association with a normalizing surveillance, and its ridiculous attempts to quantify the unquantifiable have been perfectly obvious to generations of authors, educators, and even bureaucrats - yet it still dominates both British and American education systems." "Pedagogical Economies explores the examination's figurative power for nineteenth-century discourses of subject formation and value through readings of works by Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin. These writers were active during the 1850s and 1860s, when the examination began to structure a range of British institutions, from the working-class primary school to the Indian Civil Service."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.".
• catalog description "Only a Test: The Social Functions of the Examination -- Public Money, Private Subjects: HMI Matthew Arnold -- Laborer and Hire: Trollope, Northcote--Trevelyan, and 'The Three Clerks' -- "In the Way of School": Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend' -- "Preached to Death By a Mad Governess": Ruskin's Anti-Exam -- Epilog: Money for Nothing.".
• catalog description "This book thus speculates on institutional, sexual, and economic aspects of Victorian professional gentility, as well as contributing to recent debates on Arnold's seductive stupidity, Trollopes' "mechanical" realism, Dickens's bourgeois critique of capitalist exchange, and Ruskin's ambivalent attachment to schoolgirls." "The economic, erotic, and institutional relationships implicit in educational testing and the debates surrounding it continue to trouble literary critics as well as scholars, administrators, and teachers. Pedagogical Economies can thus shed light on current questions about the relationship between school and society."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "255 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0804737150 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog subject "828/.80809355 21".
• catalog subject "English prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English prose literature Male authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Examinations in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society England History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Men in literature.".
• catalog subject "PR468.E93 S48 2000".
• catalog tableOfContents "Only a Test: The Social Functions of the Examination -- Public Money, Private Subjects: HMI Matthew Arnold -- Laborer and Hire: Trollope, Northcote--Trevelyan, and 'The Three Clerks' -- "In the Way of School": Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend' -- "Preached to Death By a Mad Governess": Ruskin's Anti-Exam -- Epilog: Money for Nothing.".
• catalog title "Pedagogical economies : the examination and the Victorian literary man / Cathy Shuman.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".