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UNINA9911093025303321 |
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Childhood studies : a reader in perspectives of childhood / / edited by Jean Mills and Richard Mills |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000 |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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MillsJean <1947-> |
MillsRichard W |
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Children - Research |
Child development - Research |
Children - Attitudes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9911143544603321 |
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Brontë Anne <1820-1849.> |
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The Bronte sisters : selected poems / / edited with an introduction by Stevie Davies |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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1-136-06882-1 |
1-283-84532-6 |
1-136-06874-0 |
0-203-44605-4 |
9780203446058 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (127 p.) |
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BrontëAnne <1820-1849.> |
BrontëCharlotte <1816-1855.> |
BrontëEmily <1818-1848.> |
DaviesStevie |
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English poetry - 19th century |
Authors, English - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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; |
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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 |
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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 |
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