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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Abstract

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.

Creators(s):	Fudge, Erica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7205; Immel, Andrea and Witmore, Michael
Item type:	Book Section
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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