Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
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Child Lore
child socialization
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Cotsen Children's Library
Cotsen Children’s Library
Cynthia's Revels
De Beaumont
early modern pedagogy
Eighteenth Century Children's Books
Eighteenth Century Children’s Books
eighteenth century education
English Manliness
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Exceeding Riches
Fairy Tale
George III
Gerard Ter Borch
Hester Thrale
historical children's literature
Jack Drum's Entertainment
Jack Drum’s Entertainment
James's Powder
James’s Powder
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Lady Charlotte Finch
Le Prince De Beaumont
library
Liminal Beings
literacy history
michael
nature
Newbery Books
princeton
reception of juvenile reading practices
Rugby Boys
sarah
spectacle
Spectacle De La Nature
stage performance studies
Super Men
Throckmorton Children
trimmer
university
Warrington Academy
witmore
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415803632
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
