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Educational Experiments: Childhood Sympathy, Regulation, and Object-Relations in Maria Edgeworth’s Writings About Education
Charles I. Armstrongsubject
Psychoanalysismedia_common.quotation_subjectSympathySubject (philosophy)Object relations theorySelection (linguistics)EnlightenmentSociologyRelation (history of concept)Romancemedia_commonFocus (linguistics)description
Charles Armstrong takes as his subject the place of infancy in Romantic-period ideas about education, with particular focus on the educational fiction of Maria Edgeworth, one of the most influential writers for children of the day. Armstrong contextualizes a selection of Edgeworth’s fiction for children in relation to the pedagogic treatise Practical Education (1798) which she co-authored with her father as well as a range of other contemporary debates about the role of literature in infant education. Armstrong reads Edgeworth’s writing for children as engaged in a complex dialogue both with earlier, Enlightenment ideas and with emergent, Romantic paradigms. In so doing, he not only sheds new light on Edgeworth’s work but also questions the adequacy of some of the binary categorizations which scholars have applied to considerations of infancy at the time.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 |