The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in

This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as wel

This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-centu

This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection

In this lively discussion Kim Reynolds looks at what children's literature is, why it is interesting, how it contributes to culture, and how it is studied as li