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Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland

From the Golden Age to Romanticism

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Rudolf Dekker

    1. Faculty of History and Art, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (EMH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. The History of Childhood

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 3-11

    3. Egodocuments and History

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 12-20

  3. Portraits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Children of a Bourgeois Courtier

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 23-30

    3. Children of an Artisan

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 31-37

    4. Children of a Farmer

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 38-40

    5. An Enlightened Education

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 41-49

    6. The New Adolescent

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 50-58

    7. Pedagogical Problems

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 59-69

  4. Moving Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Children’s Play

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 73-80

    3. Threats and Thrashings

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 81-90

    4. Mothers and Wet-nurses

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 91-100

    5. Independence

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 101-108

    6. The Child We Once Were

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 109-126

    7. The Expression of Emotions

      • Rudolf Dekker
      Pages 127-138

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 139-174
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About this book

Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the past alive, and allow us to sketch six intimate portraits. The second part of the book concentrates on the changes. Childhood became more highly valued as a phase of life. Children were taken more seriously. This is shown in chapters on child's play, punishment, wet-nursing and independence. Around 1800, in diaries, parents more openly grieved about the loss of a child, which indicates both a change of literary conventions and changes in the way emotions were felt and expressed. Finally, autobiographers wrote more and differently about their early years, and developed new memory strategies. Autobiographical texts are discussed within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book makes clear how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of History and Art, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Rudolf Dekker

About the author

Rudolf Dekker teaches history at the Faculty of History and Art of the Eramus University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland

  • Book Subtitle: From the Golden Age to Romanticism

  • Authors: Rudolf Dekker

  • Series Title: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62377-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22507-0Published: 31 December 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62377-8Published: 12 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9061

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-907X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 174

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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