Charles Knight : Educator, Publisher, Writer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Valerie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.

Knight, Charles.

Publishers and publishing--England--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars. This neglect, Valerie Gray suggests, may be related to Knight's association with the controversial Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and to the use scholars make of Knight's Penny Magazine and his two volumes on political economy to support their arguments on theories of social control and other issues. Gray argues that Knight's reputation has suffered as a result. She reexamines the evidence to offer fresh assessments of Knight's life and work that illuminate his genuine achievements. She concludes with an evaluation of Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combination's of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter 1 Charles Knight: A Highly Useful Man / Valerie Gray

chapter 2 Professional Apprenticeship: Windsor, 1812-1823 / Valerie Gray

chapter 3 Knight and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: A Special Relationship (1827–1846) / Valerie Gray

chapter 4 Knight the Populariser – Education and Literacy / Valerie Gray

chapter 5 Knight the Populariser — Political Economy / Valerie Gray

chapter 6 Knight — The Pioneer Publisher / Valerie Gray

chapter 7 Retrospect and Conclusion / Valerie Gray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-35666-2

1-351-16191-1

1-351-16192-X

1-351-16190-3

9781351161923

OCLC:

1013889404