Revolutions at Home : The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class /

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"How did we come to imagine what "ideal childhood" requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to...

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Main Author: Bruce, Emily C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Middle class > Education.
Children > Social conditions.
Children > Books and reading.
Child development.
Child development > Germany.
Children > Books and reading > Germany > History > 19th century.
Children > Books and reading > Germany > History > 18th century.
Middle class > Education > Germany > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Education > Germany > History > 18th century.
Children > Germany > Social conditions > 19th century.
Children > Germany > Social conditions > 18th century.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Sentiment and self-control : approaching childhood in the age of revolutions
  • Reading serially : the new enlightenment youth periodical for the new youth subject
  • Telling tales : folklore transformed for middle-class child readers
  • Reading the world : German children's place in geographic education
  • Writing home : letters as a social practice
  • Writing the self : growing up with diaries
  • Furnishing their own age.

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