Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

Chapter 1 Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Childhoods and Literary Cultures

Chapter 2 Age, Status, and Reading in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Circulating Childhood in Eighteenth-Century England: The Cultural Work of Periodicals

Chapter 4 Wards and Apprentices: The Legal and Literary Construction of the Familial Position of the Child

Chapter 5 ‘Pray lett none see this impertinent Epistle’: Children’s Letters and Children in Letters at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 6 Learned Pigs and Literate Children: Becoming Human in Eighteenth-Century Literary Cultures

Chapter 7 Eighteenth-Century Children’s Poetry and the Complexity of the Child’s Mind

Chapter 8 ‘Powers Expanding Slow’: Children’s ‘Unfolding’ Minds in Radical Writing of the 1790s

Chapter 9 Mediocrity: Mechanical Training and Music for Girls

Chapter 10 From Wild Fictions to Accurate Observation: Domesticating Wonder in Children’s Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

Chapter 11 ‘To Communicate Energy’: Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child

Chapter 12 In the Margins: Children and Graphic Satire in the Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 13 Redefining the Gothic Child: An Educational Experiment?

Chapter 14 Lemuel Haynes and ‘Little Adults’: Race and the Prehistory of Childhood in Early New England