Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain - Educating By the Book

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Davies is a Visiting Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Loughborough University. Klappentext Arguing that the location of idealised maternity for women is in the act of writing educational discourse rather than in the physical performance of the maternal role! Davies plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Zusammenfassung Arguing that the location of idealised maternity for women is in the act of writing educational discourse rather than in the physical performance of the maternal role, Davies plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Davies, Davies Rebecca
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2014
• EAN: 9781409451686
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-5168-6
• No. of pages: 163
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism