Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man

Author/Contributor(s):	Shuman, Cathy
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	03/01/2002
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This book explores the examination's figurative power for 19th-century discourses of subject formation and value through readings of works by Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, writers who were active in 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.