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Poetry And Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street And The Queen Caroline Controversy (Book Review), Michael Scrivener
Poetry And Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street And The Queen Caroline Controversy (Book Review), Michael Scrivener
English Faculty Research Publications
John Gardner, Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xix + 272. £50.00 hardback. 9780230280717.
English Convents In Exile, 1600–1800, Part 1 (Book Review), Jaime Goodrich
English Convents In Exile, 1600–1800, Part 1 (Book Review), Jaime Goodrich
English Faculty Research Publications
Caroline Bowden, Laurence Lux-Sterritt, and Nicky Hallett, eds. English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800. Part 1. Vols. 1 3. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. cxviii + 1265 pp. $495. ISBN: 978 1 84893 214 2.
Experiential Knowledge: How Literacy Practices Seek To Mediate Personal And Systemic Change, Gwen Gorzelsky
Experiential Knowledge: How Literacy Practices Seek To Mediate Personal And Systemic Change, Gwen Gorzelsky
English Faculty Research Publications
As a field, literacy studies has a well-established body of scholarship examining how literacy promotes systemic change or could contribute to desirable revisions of existing systems. To analyze the underlying presumptions about knowledge, literacy, and change in this scholarship, the author categorizes it in four strands. All four strands of scholarship posit a relationship between personal and systemic change and a means by which literacy practices mediate this relationship. The author analyzes each strand's presumptions about how this mediation occurs to argue that literacy researchers can expand the field's conceptual tool set by focusing on what she calls experiential knowledge. …