Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods (1st ed. 2019) (Literary Cultures and Childhoods)

Synopsis

Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.

Copyright:

2019

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030142117

Related ISBNs:

9783030142100

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/26/22

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Naomi J. Miller

Edited by:

Diane Purkiss