Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

• Main Author: Lamb, Edel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Books-History.; British literature.; Great Britain-History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of the Book.; British and Irish Literature.; History of Britain and Ireland.

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.  It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, ea...