Mary Hilton

Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young

Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists including Sarah Fielding, Hester Mulso Chapone, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Sarah Trimmer, Catharine Cappe, Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Marcet, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Carpenter, and Bertha von Marenholtz Bulow. Over a hundred-year period, from the rise of print culture in the mid-eighteenth century to the advent of the kindergarten movement in Britain in the mid-nineteenth, a variety of women intellectuals, from strikingly different ideological and theological milieux, supported, embellished, critiqued, and challenged contemporary public doctrines by positioning themselves as educators of the nation's young citizens. Of particular interest are their varying constructions of childhood expressed in a wide variety of published texts, including tales, treatises, explanatory handbooks, and collections of letters. By explicitly and consistently connecting the worlds of the schoolroom, the family, and the local parish to wider social, religious, scientific, and political issues, these women's educational texts were far more influential in the public realm than has been previously represented. Written deliberately to change the public mind, these texts spurred their many readers to action and reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780754657903
• ISBN-10: 0754657906
• Artikelnr.: 42349114

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.