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

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Full Title:: Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain : beliefs, cultures, practices / edited by Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin
Series Titles:: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: ix, 243 pages ; 25 cm.

Catalog ID (MMSID):: 990023171700302486
ISBN:: 0754664600 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754664604 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC Number:: 233697405
Barcode:: 010001365922