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
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