Women'S Literary Education, c. 1690 1850 -

Women'S Literary Education, c. 1690 1850

Louise Joy, Jessica Lim (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
356 Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9734-3 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature

Brings 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 of education, theological studies, and childhood studies
Focuses its study on the literary forms, techniques and genres deployed by female authors in the period
Examines female educationalists' interaction with: forms such as the novel, the conversational primer, children's poetry, non-fiction textbooks; the Classics; theories of translation; psychology; theories of pedagogy; practices in relation to literacy; and politics

This volume brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and profoundly significant ways in which female literary artists interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice. The volume recreates the plurality and non-linearity of the conversations and forms of literary expression that took place in and through this body of educational writing. Literature and education in the long eighteenth century share certain perceived aims: the transmission of knowledge, strengthening of understanding, acculturation, and sometimes empowerment. They also share structural forms: lessons; conversations; letters; dramatizations; confessions; narratives; imitations; sometimes fantasies. In the long eighteenth century, authors of literary texts were often authors of educational treatises who saw their activities in both spheres as interrelated. As such, the parties of teacher and pupil, author and reader frequently overlap. This book provides a historically sensitive understanding of the fraught relations between these parties, drawing attention to the period's debates about authority and freedom as they relate to matters of gender, race, religion, age, and class. This project provides a nuanced understanding of women's literary contributions to the period's strands of educational thought, enabling us to better understand the many and complicated ways in which authors and readers of the period envisaged that literary texts might fulfil, fail, or refuse to fulfil, educational functions.

Louise Joy is a Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she is the Vice-Principal. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave, 2020), Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation (Bloomsbury, 2019), the co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English (Routledge, 2018) and Poetry and Childhood (Trentham Press, 2010).Jessica Lim supervises English Literature at the University of Cambridge and has previously been a Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish College. Her research focuses on women's writing and children's literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and she is particularly interested in literary explorations of theological and pedagogical concerns. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Oxford Research in English.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 B/W illustrations 1 black & white illustration
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-4744-9734-9 / 1474497349
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-9734-3 / 9781474497343
Zustand Neuware
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