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

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Children's Literature and Culture
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Andrea Immel • Michael Witmore
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-97258-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-97258-2
Barcode:	9780415972581

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