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Educational Experiments: Childhood Sympathy, Regulation, and Object-Relations in Maria Edgeworth’s Writings About Education

2020

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 n…