Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Young Citizen: Issues of enlightenment, gender, and virtue
  • 1 Manners, patrimony, gender: education in mid eighteenth-century England
  • 2 'Wiser and better': constructing a rational piety for girls
  • 3 'Partizans of liberty and necessity': forming the enlightened citizen
  • 4 'An honourable distinction': enriching the familial culture of Rational Dissent
  • 5 'Nature's coyest secrets': enlarging the sphere of ideas
  • Part II Vice and Misery: Educating the young in the counter enlightenment
  • 6 'The paths of religion and virtue': reaching and teaching the children of the poor
  • 7 Schemes of salvation: instructing the people in piety and economy
  • Part III Childhood Contested: Social and educational reform in the mid-nineteenth century
  • 8 'One human family': rescuing the children of the 'dangerous and perishing classes'
  • 9 'The elevation of child nature': planting the English kindergarten
  • Conclusion: The Long Conversation
  • Bibliography
  • Index.