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Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain - Educating by the Book (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain - Educating by the Book (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740
to 1820, Rebecca Davies's book plots the formation of a written
paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with
educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children,
conduct literature and educative and political tracts by Samuel
Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth,
Ann Martin Taylor and Jane Austen, Davies identifies an
authoritative feminine educational voice. She shows how the
function of the discourse of maternal authority is modified in
different genres, arguing that both the female writers and the
fictional mothers adopt maternal authority and produce their own
formulations of ideal educational methods. The location of
idealised maternity for women, Davies proposes, is in the act of
writing educational discourse rather than in the physical
performance of the maternal role. Her book contextualizes the
development of a written discourse of maternal education that
emerged in the enlightenment period and explores the empowerment
achieved by women writing within this discourse, albeit through a
notion of authority that is circumscribed by the 'rules' of a
discipline.
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