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Growing up in nineteenth-century Ireland : a cultural history of middle-class childhood and gender /

By: Hatfield, Mary [author.].
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First edition.Description: xv, 279 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0198843429; 9780198843429; 9780198843429.Subject(s): Children -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Middle class -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 305.230941509034
Contents:
Introduction -- Medical men, negligent mothers and malleable children -- Religion, sectarianism and the wild Irish child -- Fashioning childhood : gender, dress and manners -- Schooling young gentlewomen : girlhood education and the experience of boarding school -- Schooling little gentlemen : Irish boys' bourgeois and elite schools -- Conclusion.
Summary: A comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland, which explores how the notion of childhood fluctuated depending on class, gender, and religious identity, and presents invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 305.230941509034 HAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0082393
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Medical men, negligent mothers and malleable children -- Religion, sectarianism and the wild Irish child -- Fashioning childhood : gender, dress and manners -- Schooling young gentlewomen : girlhood education and the experience of boarding school -- Schooling little gentlemen : Irish boys' bourgeois and elite schools -- Conclusion.

A comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland, which explores how the notion of childhood fluctuated depending on class, gender, and religious identity, and presents invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

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