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"I Pay for All": The Cultural Contradictions of Learning and Labor at Illinois Industrial University
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Direct linkMiddleton, Holly – College English, 2007
Focusing on students' responses to an 1876 writing assignment at Illinois Industrial University (which would ultimately become the University of Illinois), the author analyzes ideological tensions that occurred as the United States found itself revising the pastoral image of the farmer in an increasingly industrial age. (Contains 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Ideology, Intellectual History, Historical Interpretation
