Bøger af Sarah Winter

A boy and his teddy have enjoyed a wild day of play, but now the mess has gotten a bit out of hand. Together they must work to undo the Great Toy Disaster by making it a game. They race to straighten the room together, first by picking up all the blue items, and then the things you wear, and continuing step-by-step until the room is put to rights. Finally, it's time to say goodnight and get rested for another day of play tomorrow.A nightly read to make straightening up at the end of the day fun!- Ideal for children ages 2 to 8 years old- Uses concepts such as counting, letter recognition, and categorization to engage children- Clean along with the book or look-and-find in the pages as the room is cleanedThis book is a fun read for building the daily habit of cleaning up using a manageable step-by-step process. The story is written in rhyme to make the steps fun and memorable for children.

How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? ';A fine contribution to the sociology of literature... Highly recommended.' Choice What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as ';English.' Sarah Winter shows how Dickens's serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens's serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens's celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth-century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into ';mass' populations served by state school systems, Dickens's beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.

Combining approaches from literary studies and historical sociology, this book provides a groundbreaking cultural history of the strategies Freud employed in his writings and career to orchestrate public recognition of psychoanalysis and to shape its institutional identity.