Mary Hilton

Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young

Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Hilton addresses a neglected area in historical research by examining the educational writings of leading women moralists and activists, including Sarah Fielding, Hester Chapone, Sarah Trimmer, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Marcet, and Mary Carpenter. In connecting the young citizen, the family, and the local parish to wider social, religious, and political issues, these women moralists were highly influential in the public realm, spurring their many readers to action and reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781138259560
• ISBN-10: 113825956X
• Artikelnr.: 57046803

Autorenporträt

Mary Hilton is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Part I The Young Citizen: Issues of Enlightenment,
Gender, and Virtue: Manners, patrimony, gender: education in mid
18th-century England; 'Wiser and better': constructing a rational piety for
girls; 'Partizans of liberty and necessity': forming the enlightened
citizen; 'An honourable distinction': enriching the familial culture of
rational dissent; 'Nature's coyest secrets': enlarging the sphere of ideas.
Part II Vice and Misery: Educating the Young in the Counter Enlightenment:
'The paths of religion and virtue': reaching and teaching the children of
the poor; Schemes of salvation: instructing the young in piety and economy.
Part III Childhood Contested: Social and Educational Reform in the Mid 19th
Century: 'One human family': rescuing the children of the 'dangerous and
perishing classes'; 'The elevation of child nature': planting the English
kindergarten. Conclusion: the long conversation; Bibliography; Index.