Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain : beliefs, cultures, practices /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hilton, Mary, 1946-, Shefrin, Jill
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Series:	Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
Subjects:	Education > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Education > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Education > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Enlightenment > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Mary Hilton & Jill Shefrin
O miserable and most ruinous measure : the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800 / Sophia Woodley
Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : the educational agenda of Hannah More / Anne Stott
Marketing religious identity : female educators, Methodist texts, and eighteenth-century childhood / Mary Clare Martin
Learning and virtue : English grammar and the eighteenth-century girls' school / Carol Percy
Familiar conversation : the role of the "familiar format" in education in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England / Michèle Cohen
Hosting the grand tour : civility, enlightenment, and culture, c. 1740-1790 / Jennifer Mori
Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity : English Jesuit education and culture in the long eighteenth century, 1688-1832 / Maurice Whitehead
Colonising the mind : the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c. 1750-1850 / Deirdre Raftery
Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c. : booksellers and the infant school market / Jill Shefrin
Delightful instruction? : assessing children's use of educational books in the long eighteenth century / M.O. Grenby.