Pasts at Play
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Children's culture
Children's literature
Children’s culture
Children’s literature
Classical reception
Eighteenth-century
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Historical education
Medievalism
Nineteenth-century
Play
Twentieth-century
Uses of the past
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- ISBN 9781526128898
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
Rachel Bryant Davies is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Gribling is a Research Associate in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University
