EAN: 9783319947365

LITERARY CULTURES AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHILDH...

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 children's book market  but also with the figure of the child as it was employed
for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of
methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts  these
essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period
while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social
interaction. Together  they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child
alongside the shifting  sometimes competing  meanings that attached themselves to childhood
during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.

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