Parenting in England 1760-1830 - Emotion, Identity, and Generation

Zusatztext Parenting in England thus sets out more clearly and richly than any historian has done before the range of meanings and experiences of parenthood. Informationen zum Autor Dr Joanne Bailey is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. She has published several articles on parents, fatherhood, marriage, and marital and gender relationships. Her first book was a history of married life in the long eighteenth century. Klappentext The first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. Based on extensive and wide-ranging sources from memoirs and correspondence, to fiction, advice guides, and engravings, Bailey uncovers how people, from the poor to the rich, thought about themselves as parents and remembered their own parents. Zusammenfassung The first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. Based on extensive and wide-ranging sources from memoirs and correspondence, to fiction, advice guides, and engravings, Bailey uncovers how people, from the poor to the rich, thought about themselves as parents and remembered their own parents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Georgian parents and their world Part I: Parenting and parenthood: ideals, representations, and meanings 1: The emotional and feeling parent 2: The embodied and providing parent 3: The disciplining and instructive parent Part II: Parenting and parenthood: public, family, and personal identities 4: Parenthood and public identity: symbolic parents 5: Family identity: parentage, parents, and being parented 6: Selfhood and being a parent: cultural conventions, tensions, and complexities Part III: Generations: transmitted values, shared endeavours, and evolving relationships 7: Transferring values 8: Shared parenting 9: Changing relationships Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Bailey, Joanne Dr Bailey, Bailey Joanne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2012
• EAN: 9780199565191
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956519-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural history, Sociology: family and relationships, C 1700 To C 1800