Description
Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods, 1st ed. 2018
Literary Cultures and Childhoods Series
Language: EnglishSubject for Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods:
Keywords
Education; Poetry; Novel; Children's literature; Print culture; childhood studies
315 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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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).
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