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Publication Date: 1984
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Education and Iconography of the Republic: Patriotic Symoblism in the Frontispieces of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Textbooks.
Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr.
Teachers College Record, v85 n3 p503-12 Spr 1984
Educational materials such as textbooks often reflect and define a culture through the use of symbols and metaphors. The use of visual metaphors in frontispieces of reading and spelling texts during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show the emergence of a patriotic iconography. (DF)
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Illustrations, Literary History, Metaphors, Patriotism, Social History, Symbolic Learning, Symbolism, Textbooks
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