Childhood and children's books in early modern Europe, 1550-1800
By: [edited by] Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore.
Contributors: Immel, Andrea.; Witmore, Michael.
Series: Children's literature and culture ;; v. 38; Children's literature and culture ;; 38.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Children -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.; Children's literature, European -- History and criticism.; Children in literature.; Children -- Europe -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Little differences : children, their culture and books in the study of early modern Europe / Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore; title: Learning to laugh : children and being human in early modern thought / Erica Fudge; title: Oh that I had her : experimental knowledge and the voice of the possessed child / Michael Witmore; title: Adopted children in Shakespeare's romance and construction of heredity, nurture, and parenthood / Marianne Novy; title: Pretty fictions and little stories : child actors on the early modern stage / Claire M. Busse; title: A child minister's power in the word : the apparition of Sarah Wight / Michael Mascuch; title: In the posture of children : eighteenth-century British servants and children / Kristina Straub; title: Curiosity, science, and experiential learning in the eighteenth century : reading the Spectacle de la nature / Cynthia Koepp; title: Governesses to their children : royal and aristocratic mothers educating daughters in the reign of George III / Jill Shefrin; title: Spectral literacy : the case of Goody Two-Shoes / Patricia Crain; title: Solace in books : reading trifling adventures at Rugby School / Jan Fergus; title: Performance, pedagogy, and politics : Mrs. Thrale, Mrs. Barbauld, M. Itard / William McCarthy; title: Otto's watch : enlightenment, virtue, and time in the eighteenth century / Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker; title: The school of life : reflections on socialization in pre-industrial Germany / Jürgen Schlumbohm.