Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Miller, Naomi J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Purkiss, Diane (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Literary Cultures and Childhoods
• Θέματα: Literature, Medieval.; Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern.; Children's literature.; Economic development.; Youth in development.; Medieval Literature.; Literary Theory.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Children's Literature.; Development and Children.

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 anthr...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Reading Childhood Through Literature: Naomi Miller and Diane Purkiss
• 2. Adult Ideologies in Late-Medieval Advisory Literature: Anna Caughey
• 3. Learning to Talk: Colloquies and the Formation of Childhood Monastic Identity in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Rebecca King Cerling
• 4. Children Bewitched - Children Possessed: Three Early Modern Examples: Gerhild Williams
• 5. The Tudor Schoolroom, Antique Fables, and Fairy Toys: Catherine Belsey
• 6. Valuing New England Childhood through the Joyful Deaths of Cotton Mather's A Token for the Children of New England: Ivy Linton Stabell
• 7. Changeling Stories: The Child Substitution Motif in the Chester Mystery Cycle: Rose Alice Sawyer
• 8. Inducting Childhood: The Scripted Spontaneity of Self-Referential Child Players: Bethany Packard
• 9. The Child on Display in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair: Anna-Claire Simpson
• 10. "The King shall live without an heir": Child Loss, Grief, and Recovery in Shakespeare's Late Romances: Kathryn M. Moncrief
• 11. Figural Agency: Reading the Child in Amis and Amoloun: Julie Nelson Couch
• 12. Writing Girls in Early Modern England: Jennifer Higginbotham
• 13. Other Maids: Religion, Race, and Relationships between Girls in Early Modern London: Kate Chedgzoy
• 14. The Philosophy and Literature of Childhood Cognition: John Milton and Margaret Cavendish: Lisa Walters
• 15. Children's Literary Cultures in Early Modern England (1500-1740): Margaret Reeves
• 16. Without a trace? Archaeology, Literature, and the Life and Death of Children in 5th - 11th century England: Kirsty E. Squires
• 17. A Mother's Guilt: Female Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England: Danielle Griego
• 18. 'How fair, how beautiful and great a prince': Royal Children in the Tudor Chronicles: Carole Levin and Andrea Nichols
• 19. 'My absent child': Ageless and Missing Offspring in Early Modern Literature": Sheila Cavanagh
• 20. Literary Legacies: Children's Reading and Writing in the Montagu Archive: Patricia Phillippy
• 21. Coming of Age as a Viking: Historical Children's Books and Gender: Katherine Langrish
• 22. Warm pants and wild places: domestic anxieties in Malory's Morte D'Arthur and T.H. White's The Once and Future King: Elly McCausland
• 23. Through the Mists of Time: Reflections on Recreating Medieval and Early Modern Texts for Modern Children: Marcia Williams
• 24. Ballad Land: Ellen Kushner
• 25. Sewing the Nettle Shirt, Pulling the Sword: Jane Yolen. .