Imagining the Irish child: Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Jarlath Killeen

doi:10.7765/9781526161987

This monograph examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It will focus on different accounts of the child found in the work of a variety of Irish Anglican 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 five ‘versions’ of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the believing child, the enlightened child and the monstrous child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (novels, 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.

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Imagining the Irish child

Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Front Matter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Illustrations
pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-22

1 - Bad to the bone: the evil child
pp 23-41

2 - The Massacre of the Innocents: The vulnerable child
pp 42-95

3 - Instruction and delight? The believing child
pp 96-140

4 - On the road with Jack Connor: The Enlightenment child
pp 141-184

5 - Extraordinary bodies: The monstrous child
pp 185-239

Conclusion
pp 240-244

Bibliography
pp 245-274

Index
pp 275-282

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