Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

Name: Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
SKU: 3069514
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Children's Literature and Culture

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This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization. Among the topics covered are constructs of literacy as revealed by the figure of Goody Two Shoes, notions of pedagogy and academic standards, a reception study of children's reading based on book purchases made by Rugby school boys in the late eighteenth-century, an analysis of the first international best-seller for children, the abbe Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.

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June 16th, 2009

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

344

Series

Children's Literature and Culture

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156x234x19

ISBN-13

9780415803632

Product ID

3069514

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