Cultures of childhood
Subtitle: literary and historical studies in memory of Julia Briggs
By: editor, Charles Lock
Contributors: Briggs, Julia
Series: Angles on the English-speaking world -- v. 8
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9788763525220
Subjects: Children in literature; Congresses; Children's literature, English; History and criticism; Children's literature, American; English literature; American literature
Notes: "Published for the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen"--T.p. verso.

"This volume of Angles has its origins in a symposium entitled 'Cultures of childhood', held at the University of Copenhagen in September 2006. The symposium was one of a series in which colleagues in English at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen regularly gather"--P. [9].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The historiography of childhood / Jens Rahbek Rasmussen; title: Tom Jones : the foundling and the reader / Charles Lock; title: Happy songs every child may joy to hear : William Blake's works for children / Robert Rix; title: Spoilt children and fond parents : on children and childhood in Jane Austen's Emma / Birgitta Berglund; title: Bringing up Brontë boys / Marianne Thormählen; title: Childhood in The mill on the floss / Sara Håkansson; title: His master's words : Kipling's Mowgli stores / Inger K. Brøgger; title: William Steig's picture-books : illustration, translation, addressee / Jill Archer; title: Literacy and the power of the law : Louis Sachar's Holes and Lemony Snicket's A bad beginning / Marie Wallin.