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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruce, Emily C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
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.