Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Moral Tales for Young People
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Ways of Wisdom
Author: Jean E. FriedmanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. In 1808 Mordecai founded the Warrenton Female Academy on the enlightened principles described in the Edgeworths’ guide, Practical Education, and he enlisted family members to teach and manage the school. Rachel Mordecai, inspired by her father’s progressive methods, initiated an Edgeworthian experiment in home education on her young stepsister, Eliza. Rachel’s diary, reproduced in full in Ways of Wisdom, chronicles the moral instruction of Eliza. While retaining the traditional didacticism of wisdom literature, the diary also describes Eliza’s resistance to enlightened discipline and method. Friedman’s case study bears particular importance for scholars as it qualifies and enriches our understanding of the American Enlightenment as an amalgam of religious and ethnic assumptions rather than a universal acceptance of Liberalism or Republicanism. Ways of Wisdom also offers an illuminating reinterpretation of “Republican Motherhood” as a culturally diverse and politically complicated domestic paradigm.
Rosamond
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Tales and Novels
Author: Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales: A Selection
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770488030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More’s “Tawney Rachel,” for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie’s “The Black Velvet Pelisse,” a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth’s “The Dun,” a wealthy man’s selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways. This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth—the best-known writers of the moral tale—prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews.
Belinda
Author: Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Selected Tales for Children and Young People
Author: Susan ManlyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137341203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realist children's literature. This critical edition reveals the range of her writing for children, ranging from stories for very young children to tales for young adults, and includes The Purple Jar, The Good Aunt and The Grateful Negro. Annotated with a comprehensive introduction based on original research.
The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Author: Maria Edgeworth