Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: O'Malley, Andrew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Literary Cultures and Childhoods
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

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 childr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods - Andrew O'Malley
• 2. Age, Status, and Reading in the 18th Century - Teresa Michals
• 3. Circulating Childhood in Eighteenth-Century England: The Cultural Work of Periodicals - Anja Müller
• 4. Wards, and Apprentices: The Legal and Literary Construction of the Familial Position of the Child - Cheryl Nixon
• 5. 'Pray let none see this impertinent Epistle': Children's Letters and Children in Letters at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century - Adrianna Benzaquén
• 6. Learned Pigs and Literate Children: Becoming Human in Eighteenth-Century Literary Cultures - Ann Wierda Rowland
• 7. Fable and Family in Sarah Trimmer's Fabulous Histories - Heather Klemann
• 8. Eighteenth-Century Children's Poetry and the Complexities of the Child's Mind - Louise Joy
• 9. "Powers Expanding Slow": Children's "Unfolding" Minds in Radical Writing of the 1790s - Susan Manly
• 10. Mediocrity: Mechanical Training and Music for Girls - Donelle Ruwe
• 11. From Wild Fictions to Accurate Observations: Domesticating Wonder in Children's Literature of the Late Eighteenth-Century - Richard De Ritter
• 12. "To Communicate Energy": Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child - Lissa Paul
• 13. In the Margins: Children and Graphic Satire in the Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century - Sebastian Mitchell
• 14. Redefining the Gothic Child: An Educational Experiment? - Jessica Evans
• 15. Lemuel Hayes and "Little Adults": Race and the Prehistory of Childhood in Early New England - Jennifer Thorn.