How Long to Read Literature and Moral Reform

How Long Does it Take to Read Literature and Moral Reform?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Literature and Moral Reform by Carol Colatrella

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Persuasive, instructive, and revisionary. Serves as complementary, complicating, or corrective to much of the scholarship on Melville, especially to very recent scholarship. . . . I will never teach or discuss Melville's texts in exactly the same ways again."--Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo By delineating the connections between nineteenth-century penitentiary reforms and the narrative structures and strategies of Herman Melville's fictions, this book explores the ways literature reflects and refracts ideas about the influence of reading on moral rehabilitation. The author shows that Melville, who engaged often and profoundly with reform issues, reacted against the reading-as-discipline approach recommended by penal reformers. Carol Colatrella's approach is highly original not only in its historicizing of Melville's treatment of penitentiaries, reform, and rehabilitation of moral character but in its consideration of reading in relation to reform. Her book is the first to explore the ideological, literary, and rhetorical relationships of fictional narrative, authors, law, and social institutions to disciplinary literacy and to theories of readership. No other study so richly connects thematic and cultural analyses to evaluate how Melville's narrative strategies challenge 19th-century ideas of social injustice, particularly stereotypes of class, ethnicity, and deviance. Colatrella has done so with exceptional erudition, and in detail. For example, noting Melville's deep interest in reforming patriarchal systems, she shows how reform-movement women's writings function as intertexts to Melville's personal writings and literary works. Colatrella situates each of Melville's fictions in relationship to sociopolitical forces, demonstrating how they reconfigure narrative themes and strategies related to 19th-century ideas about moral rehabilitation and reading. The result is a book that encourages its readers to think differently, not just about Melville, but also about the complex relationship among authors, readers, and cultural contexts/sociopolitical forces. Carol Colatrella is associate professor of literature studies and codirector of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

How long is Literature and Moral Reform?

Literature and Moral Reform by Carol Colatrella is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Literature and Moral Reform Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Literature and Moral Reform aloud.

What Reading Level is Literature and Moral Reform?

Literature and Moral Reform is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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