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Pasts at play childhood encounters with history in British culture 1750 - 1914 /
Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: pasts at play
- Part I: Biblical and archaeological pasts
- Noah's Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children
- Bringing Egypt home: children's encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century
- Part II: Classical pasts
- Didactic heroes: masculinity, sexuality and exploration in the Argonaut story of Kingsley's The Heroes
- 'Fun from the Classics': puzzling antiquity in The Boy's Own Paper
- Part III: Medieval and early modern pasts
- Youthful consumption and conservative visions: Robin Hood and Wat Tyler in late Victorian penny periodicals
- A tale of two ladies? Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women
- Part IV: Revived pasts
- Tarry-at-home antiquarians: children's 'tour books', 1740-1850
- Playing with the past: child consumers, pedagogy and British history games, c. 1780-1850
- Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children's Pageant, 1909
- Appendix A: A list of 'tour books'
- Appendix B: A list of British history-themed toys and games
- Index