Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...

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Jarlath Killeen

Imagining the Irish Child

Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries...

Jarlath Killeen

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Manchester University Press
01 March 2023

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England

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.

Examines a broad range of texts, including well-known canonical texts, such as Gulliver’s Travels, neglected fiction, such as Stephen Cullen’s The Haunted Priory, and little studied genres, such as catechisms and children’s bibles

By: Jarlath Killeen
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
ISBN: 9781526161970
ISBN 10: 1526161974
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jarlath Killeen is a Professor of Victorian Literature in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin -- .