EAN: 9783030142100

LITERARY CULTURES AND MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN...

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 anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science  and
from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned
writers for children. The opening group of essays  Educating Children  explores what is perhaps
the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses
children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning.
Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative
conceptions of parent child relations. In Legacies of Childhood  expressions of grief at the
loss of a child offer a window into the family's conceptions and values. Finally 
Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real  material child versus the
fantasy of the child as a subject.

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