Neil Cocks at the Museum of English Rural Life

Dr Neil Cocks: “Country Education and late-eighteenth century literature”

On 27th November 2012, from 4.30-6 pm, CIRCL’s Dr Neil Cocks will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life on Country education and late-eighteenth century literature.

 

The seminar will consider how the child’s affiliation with the natural world is often understood to be self-evident, and a good education is often taken to be that which comes closest to a process of natural growth. This talk will question such assumptions through a reading of the place of the rural environment within narratives of education in some examples of late C18th Literature.

About Cindy

Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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