Childhood and children's books in early modern Europe: 1550 - 1800

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 playfulne...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2006
Series:Children's literature and culture 38
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Summary: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 Abbé Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:VIII, 341 S. Ill.
ISBN:0415972582
9780415972581

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