Literary Cultures and Eighteenth Century Childhoods Andrew 9783319947372

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• ISBN 13: 9783319947372
• Author: Andrew O’Malley

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.

Table of contents:

Age, Status, and Reading in the Eighteenth Century
Teresa Michals

Circulating Childhood in Eighteenth-Century England: The Cultural Work of Periodicals
Anja Müller

Wards and Apprentices: The Legal and Literary Construction of the Familial Position of the Child
Cheryl Nixon

‘Pray lett none see this impertinent Epistle’: Children’s Letters and Children in Letters at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

Reading, Pedagogy, and the Child’s Mind

Learned Pigs and Literate Children: Becoming Human in Eighteenth-Century Literary Cultures

Eighteenth-Century Children’s Poetry and the Complexity of the Child’s Mind

‘Powers Expanding Slow’: Children’s ‘Unfolding’ Minds in Radical Writing of the 1790s

Mediocrity: Mechanical Training and Music for Girls

From Wild Fictions to Accurate Observation: Domesticating Wonder in Children’s Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

‘To Communicate Energy’: Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child

Shifting Representations and Meanings of Childhood

In the Margins: Children and Graphic Satire in the Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century

Redefining the Gothic Child: An Educational Experiment?

Lemuel Haynes and ‘Little Adults’: Race and the Prehistory of Childhood in Early New England

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