Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Author
Author: Edel Lamb
Language
English
Number of Pages
258 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
Region
Demographics
Chronological Period
ISBN
9783319703589
Annotation

Children's reading in reading in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction: Reading child readers
  • 'A good child is one that loves his book': literacy, religious instruction and the child as reader
  • Books for 'Childish age': youthful reading cultures in early modern England
  • Reading boyhood: the books and reading practices of early modern schoolboys
  • 'This girle hath spirit': rewriting girlhood reading
  • 'I remember when I began to read': remembering childhood reading
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