Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

A comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland, which explores how the notion of childhood fluctuated depending on class, gender, and religious identity, and presents invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Additional text

an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism

Product details

• Authors: Mary Hatfield, Mary (Irish Research Council Postdoctora Hatfield
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198843429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884342-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Age groups: children, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards