1st Edition
Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain Educating by the Book
By Rebecca Davies
Copyright 2014
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies’s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children, conduct literature and educative and political tracts by Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Martin... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Samuel Richardson’s Novelistic Maternity; Chapter 2 Sarah Fielding’s Narrative Maternity; Chapter 3 Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Maternity; Chapter 4 Maria Edgeworth’s Empirical Maternity; Chapter 5 Ann Martin Taylor’s Dissenting Maternity; Chapter 6 Jane Austen’s Didactic Maternity; Conclusion;
Biography
Rebecca Davies is a Visiting Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Loughborough University.
'This study makes a bona fide contribution to our knowledge of pre-Golden Age children's literature ... of value for children's literature specialists ...' Children's Literature Association Quarterly
