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

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.

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

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