Learning to laugh : children and being human in early modern thought
Fudge, Erica; Immel, Andrea and Witmore, Michael, eds. (2006) Learning to laugh : children and being human in early modern thought. In: Childhood and children's books in early modern europe, 1550 - 1800. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 19-39. ISBN 9780415803632
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This volume of fourteen original essays written by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. The collection contributes towards repositioning childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination - a ready emblem of innocence, mischief and playfulness. The essays present a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization. Topics covered include: constructs of literacy as revealed by the figure of "Goody Two Shoes"; notions of pedagogy and academic standards; a reception study of children's reading based on book purchases made by Rugby school boys in the late eighteenth century; an analysis of the first international bestseller for children, the Abbe Pluche's "Spectacle de la nature"; and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.
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Fudge, Erica ![]() | Item type: | Book Section |
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ID code: | 29536 |
Keywords: | childhood , early modern europe, children's books , early modern imagination , English literature |
Subjects: | Language and Literature > English literature |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 20 Jan 2012 10:40 |
Last modified: | 01 Jan 2021 06:35 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/29536 |
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