Seeking Childhood : The Emergence of the Child in the Visual and Literary Culture of the French Long Nineteenth Century / Sophie Handler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handler, Sophie, author.

Series:

Studies in visual culture.

Studies in Visual Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the long nineteenth century. Charting the developmental period between two moments central to cultural and social understandings of children and childhood, the book's case studies examine the conceptual and cultural development of children and childhood between the acknowledgement of the child in an Enlightenment context and the avant-garde championing of childhood in the early twentieth century. Recognising this as a crossroads of tradition and modernity, the text demonstrates how artists and writers reflected upon childhood and children as symbolic of both 'Self' and 'Other', as well as considering the implications for art, society and individual life.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781837721344

1837721343

OCLC:

1492993476