The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England
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The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England
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Author : Charles John Sommerville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England written by Charles John Sommerville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The English Puritans produced an unprecedented quantity and variety of writings on children. Despite this suggestion of a deep and many-sided interest in childhood, scholars have focused on only the most damning attitudes and practices of Puritan culture. The Puritans are generally regarded as a baseline for measuring progress toward a greater understanding of children. This study by C. John Sommerville is the first to confirm that Puritans were indeed preoccupied with children. In addition, it challenges long-held assumptions about the Puritans by proposing that their interest in children was unrelated to their economic situation, theological proclivities, or a shared psychological pathology. Sommerville concludes that it was the Puritans' forward-looking orientation--their existence as a religious movement--that fueled their interest in children and inspired new views on the nature of childhood. He argues that the harshest aspects of Puritan attitudes toward childhood are related not to doctrine but to the movement's suppression in 1660, after which the Puritans fell prey to a pessimistic survival mentality. Ultimately, the book is not a history of the family, nor even of children. Rather, it is a cultural history of "childhood," that self-reflective amalgamation of contemporary adult assumptions, hopes, and concerns about the young--specifically in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on primary sources, Sommerville describes the Puritan adult as revealed through children's books, child-rearing manuals, biographies, catechisms, and educational and theological treatises. The author turns finally to tensions between the period's deep and inarticulate devotion to family and the individualizing tendency of Puritanism. From there he traces a tradition of radical individualism that is carried forward to the time of Thomas Paine and William Godwin, the secular heirs of Puritanism.
Children S Literature
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Author : Seth Lerer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Children S Literature written by Seth Lerer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement
Mediating Identities In Eighteenth Century England
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Author : Isabel Karremann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Mediating Identities In Eighteenth Century England written by Isabel Karremann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, political factions and age, and the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre. Representative case studies are the arrival of children's literature as a genre, the creation of masculine citizenship in Defoe's novels, the performance of gendered and national identities by the actress Kitty Clive or in plays by Henry Fielding and Richard Sheridan, fashion and the public sphere, the emergence of the Whig and Tory parties, the radical culture of the 1790s, and visual representations of domestic and imperial landscape. Recognizing the proliferation of identities in the epoch, these essays explore the ways in which different media determined constructions of identity and were in turn shaped by them.
Nurture And Neglect Childhood In Sixteenth Century Northern England
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Author : Loretta A. Dolan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Nurture And Neglect Childhood In Sixteenth Century Northern England written by Loretta A. Dolan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with History categories.
Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. In contrast to much recent scholarship that has focused on affective parent-child relationships, this study directly engages with the question of what sixteenth-century society actually constituted as nurture and neglect. Whilst many modern historians consider affection and love essential for nurture, contemporary ideas of good nurture were consistently framed in terms designed to instil obedience and deference to authority in the child, with the best environment in which to do this being the authoritative, patriarchal household. Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records to form its basis, hitherto an untapped resource for children’s voices, this book tackles important omissions in the historiography, including the regional imbalance, which has largely ignored the north of England and generalised about the experiences of the whole of the country using only sources from the south, and the adult-centred nature of the debate in which historians have typically portrayed the child as having little or no say in their own care and upbringing. Nurture and Neglect will be of particular interest to scholars studying the history of childhood and the social history of England in the sixteenth-century.
The Invention Of Childhood
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Author : Hugh Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-31
The Invention Of Childhood written by Hugh Cunningham and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with History categories.
The Invention of Childhood will paint a vivid picture of the lives of children in Britain from pagan Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Drawing heavily on primary sources, such as diaries, autobiographies, paintings, photographs and letters, the book will present a complete chronological history of the experience of children in Britain during the past 1500 years. We will learn the key elements that have shaped their lives down the ages and how this has differed as a result of gender, geography and ethnicity. The book will also relate children's lives to larger events in national and international history. Written by Hugh Cunningham the Professor of History at the Universtity of Kent at Canterbury, and an expert on childhood history - the book will accompany the Radio 4 series presented by the highly respected children's author Michael Morpurgo. Michael is contributing a lengthy foreword to the book. 'The Invention of Childhood' will expand on a number of key themes from the radio series, including the idea of childhood as a distinct stage of life. Opinions on when childhood should start and end, and how it differs from adulthood have changed considerably down the centuries. And these inventions and reinventions of childhood (hence the title) have had a profound effect on children's lives. The prolonged childhood we enjoy in Britain today was a luxury few could afford in the past. This fascinating study will draw attention to the ways in which we may find childhood and children in the past quite similar to the present and to ways in which childrens lives from the past seem to differ sharply from the lives children lead today.
Childhood Education And The Stage In Early Modern England
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Author : Richard Preiss
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Childhood Education And The Stage In Early Modern England written by Richard Preiss and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Drama categories.
This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.
Childhood And Children S Books In Early Modern Europe 1550 1800
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Author : Andrea Immel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Childhood And Children S Books In Early Modern Europe 1550 1800 written by Andrea Immel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Puritan Experiment
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Author : Francis J. Bremer
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2013-01-08
The Puritan Experiment written by Francis J. Bremer and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-08 with Social Science categories.
The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.
Framing Childhood In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals And Prints 1689 1789
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Author : Anja Müller
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2009
Framing Childhood In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals And Prints 1689 1789 written by Anja Müller and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. In examining links between text and image, Müller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood prior to the 1790s, challenging the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century England.
The Culture Of English Puritanism 1560 1700
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Author : Christopher Durston
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1996-01-24
The Culture Of English Puritanism 1560 1700 written by Christopher Durston and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-24 with History categories.
The Culture of English Puritanism is a major contribution to the debate on the nature and extent of early modern Puritanism. In their introduction the editors provide an up-to-date survey of the long-standing debate on Puritanism, before proceeding to outline their own definition of the movement. They argue that Puritanism should be defined as a unique and vibrant religious culture, which was grounded in a distinctive psychological outlook and which manifested itself in a set of highly characteristic religious practices. In the subsequent essays, a distinguished group of contributors consider in detail some of the most important aspects of this culture, in particular sermon-gadding, collective fasting, strict observance of Sunday, iconoclasm, and puritan attempts to reform alternative popular culture of their ungodly neighbours. Other contributions chart the channels through which puritan culture was sustained in the 80-year period proceding the English Civil War, the failure of attempts by the puritan government of Interregnum England to impose this puritan culture on the English people, the subsequent emergence of Dissent after 1600.