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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present


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This series recognizes and supports innovative work on the child and on literature for children and adolescents that informs teaching and engages with current and emerging debates in the field. Proposals are welcome for interdisciplinary and comparative studies by humanities scholars working in a variety of fields, including literature; book history, periodicals history, and print culture and the sociology of texts; theater, film, musicology, and performance studies; history, including the history of education; gender studies; art history and visual culture; cultural studies; and religion.

Topics might include, among other possibilities, how concepts and representations of the child have changed in response to adult concerns; postcolonial and transnational perspectives; "domestic imperialism" and the acculturation of the young within and across class and ethnic lines; the commercialization of childhood and children's bodies; views of young people as consumers and/or originators of culture; the child and religious discourse; children's and adolescents' self-representations; and adults' recollections of childhood.

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Performing Contemporary Childhoods Being and Becoming a Viral Child

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child

1st Edition

By Bryoni Trezise
September 22, 2023

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children’s and young people’s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. Visual cultures of childhood have been traditionally traced in photography....

Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867–1918 The Young Uranians

Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867–1918: The Young Uranians

1st Edition

By Eric L. Tribunella
July 20, 2023

In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, Edward Irenæus Prime-Stevenson includes a section on homosexual juvenile fiction, perhaps the first attempt to identify a body of children’s literature about ...

Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

1st Edition

Edited By Donelle Ruwe, James Leve
March 05, 2020

Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of ...

Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays

Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen’s Late Plays

1st Edition

By Olivia Gunn
January 16, 2020

Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Nevertheless, characters in Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf intend to host these improper occupants in their children’s rooms. Dr. Gunn...

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel

1st Edition

By Michelle Elleray
November 11, 2019

Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume ...

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel

1st Edition

By Sandra Dinter
October 25, 2019

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. ...

French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848–1886

French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848–1886

1st Edition

By Anna Green
March 29, 2017

The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in paintings, but also in other forms of visual culture and in diverse written discourses of the period-are critical for understanding modernity. Whilst such well-worn ...

Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860

Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860

1st Edition

By Megan A. Norcia
March 26, 2019

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials ...

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 Re-Tuning the History of Childhood

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood

1st Edition

By Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
January 17, 2019

Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many writers' hymns, presenting the discerning ...

Children’s Play in Literature Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child

Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child

1st Edition

Edited By Joyce E. Kelley
July 03, 2018

While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way ...

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain Literature, Media and Society

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society

1st Edition

Edited By Sandra Dinter, Ralf Schneider
November 17, 2017

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child ...

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry A Study of Children's Verse in English

The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English

1st Edition

Edited By Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Louise Joy
November 03, 2017

This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann ...

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