Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the Struggle for the American School, 1890-1920

During the Progressive Era, literary writers such as Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman engaged with ideas emerging from the newly consolidated educational profession about art's capacity to mediate between individual and social development. These ideas varied widely in t...

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Main Author: Raber, Jesse Benjamin
Other Authors: Menand, Louis
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11614
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12271800