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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction - Reading Child Readers
• 2. 'A good child is one that loves his book': Literary, Religious Instruction and the Child as Reader
• 3. Books for 'childish age': Youthful Reading Cultures in Early Modern England
• 4. Reading Boyhood: The Books and Reading Practices of Early Modern Schoolboys
• 5. 'this girl hath spirit': Rewriting Girlhood Reading
• 6. 'I remember when I began to read': Remembering Childhood Reading.