Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain
Subtitle: beliefs, cultures, practices
By: edited by Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin.
Contributors: Hilton, Mary, 1946-; Shefrin, Jill.
Series: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780754664604
Subjects: Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Enlightenment -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mary Hilton & Jill Shefrin; title: O miserable and most ruinous measure : the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800 / Sophia Woodley; title: Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : the educational agenda of Hannah More / Anne Stott; title: Marketing religious identity : female educators, Methodist texts, and eighteenth-century childhood / Mary Clare Martin; title: Learning and virtue : English grammar and the eighteenth-century girls' school / Carol Percy; title: Familiar conversation : the role of the "familiar format" in education in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England / Michèle Cohen; title: Hosting the grand tour : civility, enlightenment, and culture, c. 1740-1790 / Jennifer Mori; title: Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity : English Jesuit education and culture in the long eighteenth century, 1688-1832 / Maurice Whitehead; title: Colonising the mind : the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c. 1750-1850 / Deirdre Raftery; title: Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c. : booksellers and the infant school market / Jill Shefrin; title: Delightful instruction? : assessing children's use of educational books in the long eighteenth century / M.O. Grenby.