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In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a mother who has just escaped slavery kills her toddler daughter to prevent her from being recaptured. In Joyce Carol Oates’ My Sister, My Love, a six-year-old is brutally murdered. In Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark, an infant is left in the woods to die. In John Updike’s Rabbit, Run a child […]

In her new book, Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation, Professor Cordner analyzes the tradition of independent learning in 19th-century England. In her analysis, Cordner discusses the impact of self-education on renowned literary minds such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing, all of whom were barred from traditional […]