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Wuthering Heights Group Research Project: Education: Nature and Nurture

Guide to resources.

Education: Nature and Nurture

a)    Research John Locke’s and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about education.
b)    Find quotations about reading and education in the novel, Wuthering Heights.
c)    Through the characters and events in the novel, what might Emily Bronte argue / suggest about education?  (Examine the characters of Nelly Dean and Hareton.)

Databases

Example of relevant article:

Allan, D. J. “Nature, Education and Freedom According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 46, 1937, pp. 191–207. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3747139

Example of relevant article:

Wokler, Robert, Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford, 2001; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Sept. 2013), https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192801982.001.0001.

Example of relevant article:

Simmons, A. John. On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society. Course Book ed. Princeton University Press, 2014. Project MUSEhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/35130.