Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
Editors: Miller, Naomi J., Purkiss, Diane (Eds.)
Free Preview- Brings together a lineup of top contributorsSheds new light on the previously under-examined figure of the child in Medieval and Early Modern cultureLooks at a variety of facets of childhood, including education and performance
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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.
- About the authors
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Naomi J. Miller is Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, USA. Her books include Re-Reading Mary Wroth (Palgrave, 2015); Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England (2015); Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood (2011); Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World (2006); and Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (2003).
Diane Purkiss is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK, and fellow and tutor at Keble College. Her books include Magical Books: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children’s Books, edited by Carolyne Larrington and Diane Purkiss (2013); The English Civil War: A People’s History (2006); Literature, Gender and Politics during the English Civil War (2005); Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women (2003); At the Bottom of the Garden (2001); The Witch in History (1996); and Women, Texts and Histories, edited by Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (1992).
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Adult Ideologies in Late-Medieval Advisory Writing
Pages 3-20
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Learning to Talk: Colloquies and the Formation of Childhood Monastic Identity in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Pages 21-35
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Children Bewitched–Children Possessed: Three Early Modern Examples
Pages 37-51
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The Tudor Schoolroom, Antique Fables, and Fairy Toys
Pages 53-67
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Valuing New England Childhood Through the Joyful Deaths of Cotton Mather’s A Token for the Children of New England
Pages 69-83
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
- Editors
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- Naomi J. Miller
- Diane Purkiss
- Series Title
- Literary Cultures and Childhoods
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-14211-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-14211-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-14210-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXVIII, 394
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 b/w illustrations
- Topics
