Revolutions at home : the origin of modern childhood and the German middle class /
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 be se...
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.
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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.