Overview
- Very interdisciplinary - features work from scholars in a variety of other disciplines such as Education, History, Visual Culture/Art History etc
- Looks at at eighteenth-century childhoods from a variety of angles: as a set of expectations, desires, concerns, limitations, and capacities adults sought to address in their writing for young people; as a complex trope or symbol that performed a range of cultural work in the writings adults produced for one another; as a lived experience children recorded and actively shaped
- Examines a variety of literary cultures – novels, poetry, legal writing, periodicals, pamphlets, personal letters, graphic prints, and literature produced specifically for young readers
Part of the book series: Literary Cultures and Childhoods (LICUCH)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Status and Contexts of Childhood
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Reading, Pedagogy, and the Child’s Mind
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Shifting Representations and Meanings of Childhood
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Andrew O’Malley is Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century (2003) and of Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods
Editors: Andrew O'Malley
Series Title: Literary Cultures and Childhoods
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94737-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94736-5Published: 14 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40471-0Published: 21 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94737-2Published: 29 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-479X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Childhood, Adolescence and Society