1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911093025303321

Titolo

Childhood studies : a reader in perspectives of childhood / / edited by Jean Mills and Richard Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-84445-118-6

1-134-61197-8

1-134-61198-6

0-203-25281-0

1-280-33306-5

0-203-02020-0

9780203020203

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillsJean <1947->

MillsRichard W

Disciplina

305.23/07/2

Soggetti

Children - Research

Child development - Research

Children - Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Jean Mills and Richard Mills; Overview; Perspectives of childhood Richard Mills; Literature; The child in nineteenth-century literature Jean Mills; Childhood and twentieth-century children's literature Fay Sampson; Education; Children at play Susannah Smith; Language and thought Alison Johnson; Moral and spiritual growth Jack Priestley; Cultural studies; Race, class and gender Neill Thew; Children in film Stuart Hanson; Research; Uncovering the history of childhood Maxine Rhodes

Researching childhood Jean Mills and Richard MillsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media.  This



book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into the next century.The book is divided into five main sections:* part one  sets the scene and  provides the reader with an overview of attitudes towards childhood.*  part two survey

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911143544603321

Autore

Brontë Anne <1820-1849.>

Titolo

The Bronte sisters : selected poems / / edited with an introduction by Stevie Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-06882-1

1-283-84532-6

1-136-06874-0

0-203-44605-4

9780203446058

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 p.)

Collana

Fyfield books

Altri autori (Persone)

BrontëAnne <1820-1849.>

BrontëCharlotte <1816-1855.>

BrontëEmily <1818-1848.>

DaviesStevie

Disciplina

821.808

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century

Authors, English - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; The Brontes as Poets; Charlotte Bronte; Emily Jane Bronte'; Anne Bronte; Poems by Charlotte Bronte; Lines Addressed to 'The Tower of All Nations'; Written upon the Occasion of the Dinner Given to the Literati of the Glasstown; Home-Sickness; from Retrospection; The Wounded Stag; 'Turn not now for comfort here'; 'He could not sleep! - the couch of war'; The Teacher's Monologue; Diving; Gods of the Old Mythology;



Parting; Preference; Morning; Master and Pupil; Reason; 'He saw my heart's woe, discovered my soul's anguish'

On the Death of Emily Jane BronteOn the Death of Anne Bronte; Poems by Emily Jane Bronte; 'High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending'; 'All day I've toiled, but not with pain'; 'I am the only being whose doom'; 'Only some spires of bright green grass'; 'Now trust a heart that trusts in you'; A. G. A. ('Sleep brings no joy to me'); 'I'll come when thou art saddest'; 'I'm happiest when most away'; Song ('King Julius left the south country'); 'And now the house-dog stretched once more'; 'Shed no tears o'er that tomb'; A. A. A. ('Sleep not, dream not;  this bright day')

Song ('O between distress and pleasure')'There was a time when my cheek burned'; ' ""Well, some may hate, and some may scorn"" '; 'It is too late to call thee now'; 'Riches I hold in light esteem'; 'Shall Earth no more inspire thee'; 'Aye, there it is! It wakes to-night'; How Clear She Shines!; 'In the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid'; A. G. A. to A. S. ('This summer wind, with thee and me'); 'Come, walk with me'; To Imagination; 'O thy bright eyes must answer now'; The Philosopher's Conclusion; R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida ('Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee!')

'Death, that struck when I was most confiding''Ah! why, because the dazzling sun'; 'How beautiful the Earth is still'; from Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle; 'No coward soul is mine'; 'Why ask to know what date, what clime?'; Stanzas ('Often rebuked, yet always back returning'); Poems by Anne Bronte·; A Voice from the Dungeon; The North Wind; Verses to a Child; Retirement; Despondency; To Cowper; A Word to the 'Elect'; Past Days; A Reminiscence; A Prayer; Night; Dreams; If This be All; Song ('We know where deepest lies the snow'); Song ('Come to the banquet;  triumph in your songs!')

Oh, They Have Robbed Me of the HopeDomestic Peace; Severed and Gone; Farewell to Thee! But Not Farewell; Last Lines; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic.  Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English.  Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve.  And they surprise us out of our conventional notions of the sisters' personalities: Emily's rebelliousness, for exampl