Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
«an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism»
Maeve O'Riordan, Cultural and Social History
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198843429
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«an entertaining and informative book ... It is essential reading for any scholar of nighteenth-century culture and ideas, particularly within education, gender and colonialism»
Maeve O'Riordan, Cultural and Social History