Mary Hatfield

Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192581464
• Artikelnr.: 57808803

Autorenporträt

Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin and was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Medical Men, Negligent Mothers, and Malleable Children
* 2: Religion, Sectarianism, and the Wild Irish Child
* 3: Fashioning Childhood: Gender, Dress, and Manners
* 4: Schooling Young Gentlewomen: Girlhood Education and the Experience
of Boarding School
* 5: Schooling Little Gentlemen: Irish Boys' Bourgeois and Elite
Schools
* Conclusion
* Bibliography