Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and Generation
Joanne Bailey
Abstract
This book is about the world of parenting and parenthood in the Georgian era. It navigates recent ‘turns’ towards emotions, subjectivity, memory, the body and materiality. This approach reveals the profound emotions provoked by motherhood and fatherhood and the labour and hard work it entailed. Such parental investment meant that the experience was fundamental to the forging of national, family and personal identities. Society called upon parents to transmit prized values across generations and this study explores how this was achieved. All in all, raising children needed more than two parents ... More
Keywords: parenting, parenthood, motherhood, fatherhood, emotions, memory, family identity, personal identity, generations, kinship
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199565191 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565191.001.0001 |
