Gender and early modern constructions of childhood / Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Naomi J., 1960-

Contributor:

Yavneh, Naomi.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--History.

Gender identity.

Children--Family relationships--Europe--History.

Children.

Children's plays--Study and teaching.

Children's plays.

Children--Family relationships.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Summary:

Scholars of European literature and history explore how constructions of childhood were inflected by considerations of gender throughout the early modern world. They look at conceptualizing childhood: loss and celebration, imprinting identity: education and social training, and transitional stages: growing up and growing old. The topics include child-loss and funeral monuments in early modern England, Huguenot children and child-reading in the letters of Louise de Coligny, gender and household instruction in Shakespeare's The Tempest, codpieces and masculinity in 16th-century Europe, and allegories of childhood in Cervantes. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Early modern children as subjects : gender matters / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh

Conceptualizing childhood : loss and celebration

A comfortable farewell : child-loss and funeral monuments in early modern England

Parents, children, and responses to death in dream structures in early modern England / Patricia Philippy, Carole Levin

Lost and found : Veronese's finding of Moses / Naomi Yavneh

"Certein childeplayes remembred by the fayre ladies" : girls and their games / Katherine R. Larson

Imprinting identity : education and social training

The facts of enfance : Rabelais's satire of sixteenth-century French pediatrics / Marie Rutkoski

"Our little darlings" : Huguenot children and child-rearing in the letters of Louise de Coligny / Jane Couchman

Anne Dormer and her children / Sara Mendelson

"Obey and be attentive" : gender and household instruction in Shakespeare's the Tempest / Kathryn Moncrief

Producing girls on the English stage : performance as pedagogy in Mary Ward's convent schools / Caroline Bicks

Transitional stages : growing up and growing old

Boys to men : codpieces and masculinity in sixteenth-century Europe / Carole Collier Frick

Marvell, boys, girls and men : should we worry / Diane Purkiss

Martyrs and minors : allegories of childhood in Cervantes / Emilie Bergmann

Portraiture and royal family ties : kings, queens, princes, and princesses in Caroline England / Julia Marciari Alexander

"Second childishness" and the Shakespearean vision of ideal parenting / Gregory M. Colon Semenza.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409429975

1409429970

OCLC:

723141704