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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wagner, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2012]
Subjects:
Sullivan, Annie, > 1866-1936.
Keller, Helen, > 1880-1968.
Sanborn, F. B. > (Franklin Benjamin), > 1831-1917.
Deafblind people > Education > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Table of 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 Macy's later years, 1917-1968.