Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

by Andrew O'Malley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030404714
• ISBN13: 9783030404710
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"