Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed throu

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written

This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and chi

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century t

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people.