Ragged Dick in the Nineties: An Active Learning Student Project
| dc.contributor.author | Loranger, Carol Schaechterle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-21T20:29:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-21T20:29:06Z | |
| dc.date.created | March-April 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | March-April 1999 | |
| dc.identifier.other | COLA_english_loranger_newsboyv38.2p9-10 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2374.WSU/4267 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Horatio Alger, Jr.'s Ragged Dick is the most popular text in my syllabus for English 356 "American Texts: 1860-1920." Ours is a metropolitan university with a large population of working-class and low-income, disabled and minority, first-generation college students. Alger's affable hero, his struggle toward "fame and fortune," and the detailed depiction of urban life has resonance for students for whom just getting to college has been a struggle, as well as piquancy: their life experience suggests that "moral capitalism" no longer operates, if indeed it ever did, but they know they must act as if it did if they are to have any chance at all of getting ahead. |
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| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Newsboy | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | College of Liberal Arts Department of English | en_US |
| dc.source | Newsboy: Volume 38.2, March-April, 1999, Pages 9-10 | |
| dc.subject | Active learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en_US |
| dc.subject | College department heads | en_US |
| dc.subject | English language--Writing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Loranger, Carol | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wright State University. Department of English Language and Literatures | en_US |
| dc.title | Ragged Dick in the Nineties: An Active Learning Student Project | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.permissions | World | |
| dc.publisher.digital | Digital Services Department, Wright State University Libraries | en_US |
| dc.date.digitized | 2011-01-18 | |
| dc.publisher.OLinstitution | Wright State University |
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