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Greteman Blaine |
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The poetics and politics of youth in Milton's England / / Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89180-4 |
1-107-42464-X |
1-107-42263-9 |
1-107-42070-9 |
1-139-81189-4 |
1-107-41691-4 |
1-107-41954-9 |
1-107-41822-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Children in literature |
Youth in literature |
Children and politics - History - 17th century |
Literature and society - England - History - 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Childish things -- Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England -- Children, literature, and the problem of consent -- Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection -- 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work -- 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy -- 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost -- Children of paradise -- Epilogue: 'Children gathering pebbles on the shore'. |
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As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a |
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voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century. |
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