Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

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1. Introduction: Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods - Andrew O'Malley.- 2. Age, Status, and Reading in the 18th Century - Teresa Michals.- 3. Circulating Childhood in Eighteenth-Century England: The Cultural Work of Periodicals - Anja Muller.- 4. Wards, and Apprentices: The Legal and Literary Construction of the Familial Position of the Child - Cheryl Nixon.- 5. ‘Pray let none see this impertinent Epistle’: Children’s Letters and Children in Letters at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century - Adrianna Benzaquen.- 6. Learned Pigs and Literate Children: Becoming Human in Eighteenth-Century Literary Cultures - Ann Wierda Rowland.- 7. Fable and Family in Sarah Trimmer’s Fabulous Histories - Heather Klemann.- 8. Eighteenth-Century Children’s Poetry and the Complexities of the Child’s Mind - Louise Joy.- 9. Powers Expanding Slow Children’s Unfolding Minds in Radical Writing of the 1790s - Susan Manly.- 10. Mediocrity: Mechanical Training and Music for Girls - Donelle Ruwe.- 11. From Wild Fictions to Accurate Observations: Domesticating Wonder in Children’s Literature of the Late Eighteenth-Century - Richard De Ritter.- 12. To Communicate Energy Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child - Lissa Paul.- 13. In the Margins: Children and Graphic Satire in the Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century - Sebastian Mitchell.- 14. Redefining the Gothic Child: An Educational Experiment? - Jessica Evans.- 15. Lemuel Hayes and Little Adults Race and the Prehistory of Childhood in Early New England - Jennifer Thorn.