{"product_id":"9780809322367","title":"The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucille M. Schultz's \u003ci\u003eThe Young Composers: Composition\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003es Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction. Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American schools is much more important in the overall history of writing instruction than we have previously assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on primary materials that have not been considered in previous histories of writing instruction—little-known textbooks and student writing that includes prize-winning essays, journal entries, letters, and articles written for school newspapers—Schultz shows that in nineteenth-century American schools, the voices of the British rhetoricians that dominated college writing instruction were attenuated by the voice of the Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Partly through the influence of Pestalozzi's thought, writing instruction for children in schools became child-centered, not just a replica or imitation of writing instruction in the colleges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was also in these nineteenth-century American schools that personal or experience-based writing began and where the democratization of writing was institutionalized. These schools prefigured some of our contemporary composition practices: free writing, peer editing, and the use of illustrations as writing prompts. It was in these schools, in fact, where composition instruction as we know it today began, Schultz argues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book features a chapter on the agency of textbook iconography, which includes illustrations from nineteenth-century composition books as well as a cultural analysis of those illustrations. Schultz also includes a lengthy bibliography of nineteenth-century composition textbooks and student and school newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026509611248,"sku":"9780809322367","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809322367_p0.jpg?v=1763741403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809322367","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}