Childhood, memory and autobiography in Holland : from the golden age to romanticism
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Childhood, memory and autobiography in Holland : from the golden age to romanticism
（Early modern history : society and culture）
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000
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- : us
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Includes index
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: us ISBN 9780312225070
Description
Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the past alive, and allow us to sketch six intimate portraits. The second part of the book concentrates on the changes. Childhood became more highly valued as a phase of life. Children were taken more seriously. This is shown in chapters on child's play, punishment, wet-nursing and independence.
Around 1800, in diaries, parents more openly grieved about the loss of a child, which indicates both a change of literary conventions and changes in the way emotions were felt and expressed. Finally, autobiographers wrote more and differently about their early years, and developed new memory strategies. Autobiographical texts are discussed within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book makes clear how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
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: uk ISBN 9780333751176
Description
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, autobiographers and diarists adopted new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. The author looks at the connection between these developments. Autobiographical texts are set within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book shows how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
Table of Contents
List of Plates Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION The History of Childhood Egodocuments and History PART II: PORTRAITS Children of a Bourgeois Courtier Children of an Artisan Children of a Farmer An Enlightened Education The New Adolescent Pedagogical Problems PART III: MOVING IMAGES Children's Play Threats and Thrashings Mothers and Wet-nurses Independence The Child We Once Were The Expression of Emotions Notes Authors of Egodocuments Index
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