Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Moral Tales for Young People
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Rosamond
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Tales and Novels
Author: Maria EdgeworthWays 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.
Moral 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 EdgeworthThe Absentee
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Blue Jar Story Book
Author: Maria EdgeworthLittle dog Trusty
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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