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The miracle worker and the transcendentalist Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller

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  Narrator: Multiple Readers
  Publisher:

  Crane Library, 2015

Details:

• Author: Wagner, David
  Date:

  Issued

  2013
  Contents:

  • Prologue: Sanborn's younger days 1831-1865
  • The post Civil War North: triumphant for some
  • "Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school"
  • Yankee administrators and Irish populism
  • Keller and Sullivan: world fame and local hostility 1887-1892
  • The attack on Keller and Sullivan in the early twentieth century
  • Progressivism and radicalism in the 1910s
  • Generations, class, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the conflict
  • Epilogue: Keller and Sullivan's later years.
  Subject(s): 19th century | Deafblind people | Education | History | Keller, Helen | Sanborn, F. B. | Social conditions | Sullivan, Annie | Transcendentalism (New England) | United States | Women
  Original Publisher: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2012
  Language(s): English