Framing childhood in eighteenth-century English periodicals and prints, 1689-1789 / / Anja Müller

• Autore: Müller Anja <1969 September 24-, >
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 828/.508093523
• Soggetto topico: English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English periodicals - History - 18th century; Children in literature; Education in literature; Children in mass media; Education in mass media; Children - Great Britain - History - 18th century
• Note generali: First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction : representing childhood in eighteenth-century English prose and prints -- 2. Fashioning children's bodies -- 3. Framing children's minds -- 4. Family matters -- 5. Public children -- 6. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Muller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. Muller focuses on The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Female Tatler, and The Female Spectator, arguing that these periodicals contributed significantly to the construction, development, and popularization of childhood concepts that provided the basis for later ideas such as the 'Romantic child'. Informed by the theoretical concept of 'framing', by which certain concepts of childhood are accepted as legitimate while others are excluded, Framing Childhood analyses the textual and graphic constructions of the child's body, educational debates, how the shift from genealogical to affective bonding affected conceptions of parent-child relations, and how prints employed child figures as focalizers in their representations of public scenes. In examining links between text and image, Muller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood before the 1790s, offering a re-visioning of the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century England."
• Titolo autorizzato: Framing childhood in eighteenth-century English periodicals and prints, 1689-1789
• ISBN: 1-138-26579-9; 1-315-25506-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154613103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.