书目名称 | Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods |
编辑 | Naomi J. Miller,Diane Purkiss |
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概述 | Brings together a lineup of top contributors.Sheds new light on the previously under-examined figure of the child in Medieval and Early Modern culture.Looks at a variety of facets of childhood, includ |
丛书名称 | Literary Cultures and Childhoods |
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描述 | .Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, .Educating Children., explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. .Performing Childhood. addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. .Literatures of Childhood. examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In .Legacies of Childhood., expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’sconceptions and values. Finally, .Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children. considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.. |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Performance; Education; Shakespeare; Jonson; Advisory LIterature; Children in literature; Early modern lit |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14211-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-14213-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-14211-7Series ISSN 2946-479X Series E-ISSN 2946-4803 |
issn_series | 2946-479X |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |