Imagining the Irish child (eBook)

Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Jarlath Killeen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
296 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6196-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six versions of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children s bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries. -- .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 11 black & white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1641 rebellion • anglican wiriting • Catechisms • childhood studies • child of wrath • children’s bibles • Innocence • Irish Anglican identity • Irish Studies • John Temple • Jonathan Swift • Puritanism • Stephen Cullen • the child • the irish child • vulnerability • William Chaigneau • William Molyneux
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-6196-6 / 1526161966
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6196-3 / 9781526161963