{"product_id":"9781526161970","title":"Imagining the Irish child","description":"Author: Jarlath Killeen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526161970\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Mar 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the ways in which \u003ci\u003eideas\u003c\/i\u003e   about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant   writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798   Rebellion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable\/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines a broad range of texts, including well-known canonical texts, such as \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, neglected fiction, such as Stephen Cullen's \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Priory\u003c\/i\u003e, and little studied genres, such as catechisms and children's bibles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920525541534,"sku":"ING-9781526161970","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526161970.jpg?v=1782823121","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526161970","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}