Women's Literary Education, c. 1690–1850 /

Women's Literary Education, c. 1690–1850 / / ed. by Louise Joy.

Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literatureBrings together researchers from a range of disciplinary areas: literary studies, history, book history, eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century studies, gender studies, the history of philosophy, the history...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Barr, Rebecca Anne,
Bryant Davies, Rachel,
Cohen, Michèle,
Douglas, Aileen,
Halsey, Katie,
James, Felicity,
Joy, Louise,
Kirkley, Laura,
Lim, Jessica,
Orchard, Jack,
Padley, Jonathan,
Paul, Lissa,
Robertson, Jennifer,
Wallace, Jennifer,
White, Laura,
HerausgeberIn:
Joy, Louise,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 1 black & white illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I Moulding Forms
  • Chapter 1 Important Familial Conversations: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer and Ellenor Fenn
  • Chapter 2 Reading Poetry for Children in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter 3 Women Writing Geography Texts, 1790–1830
  • Chapter 4 ‘What follows’: Maria Edgeworth’s Works for Older Children
  • Part II Acknowledging the Past
  • Chapter 5 Desire and Performative Masquerade in L.E.L’s and E.B.B.’s Classical Translations
  • Chapter 6 ‘Wisdom consists in the right use of knowledge’: Socrates as a Symbol of Quaker Pedagogy in Maria Hack’s Grecian Stories
  • Chapter 7 Bluestocking Epistolary Education: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot
  • Part III Responding to the Present
  • Chapter 8 Laughing to Learn: Sarah Fielding’s Life Lessons
  • Chapter 9 Emotional Regulation: Jane Austen, Jane West and Mary Brunton
  • Chapter 10 Staging Women’s Education in Two Anti-Jacobin Novels: More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Hawkins’ Rosanne: or, A Father’s Labour Lost (1814)
  • Part IV Shaping the Future
  • Chapter 11 Pedagogy as (Cosmo)Politics: Cultivating Benevolence in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Educational Works
  • Chapter 12 ‘The enemy of imagination’? Re-imagining Sarah Trimmer and Her Fabulous Histories
  • Chapter 13 A Literary Life: A Transatlantic Tale of Vivacity, Rousing Curiosity and Engaging Affection
  • Index

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