Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction: Childish things -- Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England -- Children, literature, and the problem of consent -- Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection -- 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work -- 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy -- 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost -- Children of paradise -- Epilogue: 'Children gathering pebbles on the shore' |
Summary |
As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century |
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Includes index |
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Subject |
English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Children in literature.
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Youth in literature.
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Children and politics -- History -- 17th century
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Children and politics
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Children in literature
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Youth in literature
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013008594 |
ISBN |
9781107416918 |
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1107416914 |
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1139811894 |
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9781139811897 |
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1107038081 |
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9781107038080 |
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1139891804 |
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9781139891806 |
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1107422639 |
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9781107422636 |
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1107420709 |
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9781107420700 |
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1107419549 |
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9781107419544 |
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1107418224 |
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9781107418226 |
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