Format:
169 S.
,
Ill.
,
21 cm
ISBN:
3868214429
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9783868214420
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
"... qualities attributed to the age of childhood during the Renaissance were in the focus of the conference 'Childhood in the English Renaissance', held at the University of Siegen in February 2012, on which the present volume is based." (Seite 1/2)
,
Childhood in the Renaissance : introductory remarks / Anja MüllerRational perception versus bodily expression : negotiating grief, consolation and mourning in Early Modern childhood / Sonja Fielitz -- "A white paper" : anamnesis and the character of the child in Early Modern English literature / Matthias Bauer -- Childhood in the Early Modern stairs of life : envisioning age distinctions / Anja Müller -- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs as children's literature / Bettina Boecker -- "See my lords what hopes you store in him" : child characters in Jacobean revenge tragedies / Carolina Bauer -- "To be [or not to be] boy eternal" : dichotomies of royal childhood in Shakespeare's histories / Imke Kimpel -- Three Henries and the dashed hopes of the early Stuart dynasty / Barbara Bienias -- Tudor and Jacobean mother-and-child portraits and their patrons : an overview / Martin Spies -- Childhood denied : infanticide in archives and literature / Josephine Billingham --Conceptions of childhood in Renaissance midwife manuals between naturalistic and religious interpretations / Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Marcel Hartwig -- Epilogue : Becoming child, becoming other : childhood as signifier / David Kennedy -- The Janus child : a response / Peter van Dolen.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Renaissance
;
Kind
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Müller, Anja 1969-