Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods, 1st ed. 2018 Literary Cultures and Childhoods Series
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
Date de parution : 01-2019
Ouvrage de 315 p.
14.8x21 cm
Thème de Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods :
Mots-clés :
Education; Poetry; Novel; Children's literature; Print culture; childhood studies