Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

by Edel Lamb

Book Overview

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, early modern literature and the history of reading. Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319889249
• ISBN13: 9783319889245
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"