Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore

Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135473327
• Artikelnr.: 39973826

Autorenporträt

Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore Little
Differences: Children, Their Culture and Books in the Study of Early Modern
Europe Chapter 2 Erica Fudge Learning to Laugh: Children and Being Human in
Early Modern Thought Chapter 3 Michael Witmore 'Oh that I Had Her:'
Experimental Knowledge and the Voice of the Possessed Child Chapter 4
Marianne Novy Adopted Children in Shakespeare's Romance and Construction of
Heredity, Nurture, and Parenthood Chapter 5 Claire M. Busse 'Pretty
Fictions' and 'Little Stories:' Child Actors on the Early Modern Stage
Chapter 6 Michael Mascuch A Child Minister's 'Power in the Word:' The
Apparition of Sarah Wight Chapter 7 Kristina Straub 'In the Posture of
Children:' Eighteenth-Century British Servants and Children Chapter 8
Cynthia Koepp Curiosity, Science and Experiential Learning in the
Eighteenth Century: Reading the Spectacle de la nature Chapter 9 Jill
Shefrin 'Governesses to Their Children:' Royal and Aristocratic Mothers
Educating Daughters in the Reign of George III Chapter 10 Patricia Crain
Spectral Literacy: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes Chapter 11 Jan Fergus Solace
in Books: Reading Trifling Adventures at Rugby School Chapter 12 William
McCarthy Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics: Mrs. Thrale, Mrs. Barbauld,
M. Itard Chapter 13 Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker Otto's Watch:
Enlightenment, Virtue and Time in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 14 Jürgen
Schlumbohm The School of Life: Reflections on Socialization in
Pre-Industrial Germany