Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (Children's Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (Children's Literature and Culture) Book

This volume of fourteen original essays written by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. The collection contributes towards repositioning childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination - a ready emblem of innocence, mischief and playfulness. The essays present 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. Topics covered include: 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 bestseller for children, the Abbe Pluche's "Spectacle de la nature"; and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.Read More

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  • 0415972582
  • 9780415972581
  • Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore
  • 20 December 2005
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
  • 1
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