Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present – serie
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Ethics and Children's Literature
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at …
British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900
Re-Tuning the History of Childhood
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many writers' hymns, presenting the discerning …
Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
Av Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin
Häftad, 2019
762 kr
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Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact …
Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials …
Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume …
Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants
Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays
Av Olivia Gunn
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Nevertheless, characters in Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf intend to host these improper occupants in their children’s rooms. Dr. Gunn …
Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. …
Children’s Play in Literature
Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way …
Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials …
Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present
Av Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take …
Aesthetics of Children's Poetry
A Study of Children's Verse in English
Av Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Louise Joy
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann …
Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia
Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on …
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain
Literature, Media and Society
Av Sandra Dinter, Ralf Schneider
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child …
Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play
Häftad, 2019
425 kr
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Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as …
Nordic Childhoods 1700�1960
From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Av Reidar Aasgaard, Marcia Bunge m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Although some books have been written about the history of childhood …
Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century
Age and Identity
Inbunden, 2006
3643 kr
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This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-century discourse and the establishment of the category of age as a marker of social distinction alongside race, class and gender. While …
Writings of Hesba Stretton
Reclaiming the Outcast
Av Elaine Lomax
Inbunden, 2009
2896 kr
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Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical …
Kipling's Children's Literature
Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood
Av Sue Walsh
Inbunden, 2010
2896 kr
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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'. Sue Walsh challenges the apparently clear division between 'children's' and 'adult' …
Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Av Jenny Holt
Inbunden, 2008
2896 kr
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate. Jenny Holt argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of …
Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young
Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750–1850
Av Mary Hilton
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational …
Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture
Inbunden, 2008
2879 kr
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During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults and as proof that middle-class materialist …
Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature
Estate, Blood, and Body
Inbunden, 2011
3146 kr
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Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case …
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England
Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
Inbunden, 2009
2879 kr
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Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel …
Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain
Beliefs, Cultures, Practices
Av Jill Shefrin, Jill Shefrin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
3262 kr
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Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky …
Framing Childhood in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals and Prints, 1689–1789
Av Anja Müller
Inbunden, 2009
2879 kr
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Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. Müller focuses on The Tatler, The Spectator, The …
Performing Contemporary Childhoods
Being and Becoming a Viral Child
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children’s and young people’s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. Visual cultures of childhood have been traditionally traced in photography. …
Performing Contemporary Childhoods
Being and Becoming a Viral Child
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children’s and young people’s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. Visual cultures of childhood have been traditionally traced in photography. …
Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of …
Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants
Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays
Av Olivia Gunn
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Nevertheless, characters in Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf intend to host these improper occupants in their children’s rooms. Dr. Gunn …
Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume …
