Pasts at play: Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914 (Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century)

Synopsis

This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781526128904

Related ISBNs:

9781526128898, 9781526128911

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Date of Addition:

01/11/21

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Rachel Bryant Davies

Edited by:

Barbara Gribling