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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 with the past to generate moral lessons.
Table des matières
Introduction: pasts at play - Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara Gribling
Part I: Biblical and archaeological pasts
1 Noah's Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children - Melanie Keene
2 Bringing Egypt home: children's encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century - Virginia Zimmerman
Part II: Classical pasts
3 Didactic heroes: masculinity, sexuality and exploration in the Argonaut story of Kingsley's
The Heroes - Helen Lovatt
4 'Fun from the Classics': puzzling antiquity in
The Boy's Own Paper - Rachel Bryant Davies
Part III: Medieval and early modern pasts
5 Youthful consumption and conservative visions: Robin Hood and Wat Tyler in late Victorian penny periodicals - Stephen Basdeo
6 A tale of two ladies? Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women - Rosemary Mitchell
Part IV: Revived pasts
7 Tarry-at-home antiquarians: children's 'tour books' 1740-1840 - M. O. Grenby
8 Playing with the past: child consumers, pedagogy and British history games, c. 1780-1850 - Barbara Gribling
9 Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children's Pageant, 1909 - Ellie Reid
Appendix A: A list of 'tour books' - M. O. Grenby
Appendix B: A list of British history-themed toys and games - Barbara Gribling
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Rachel Bryant Davies is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Gribling is a Research Associate in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University
Résumé
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 with the past to generate moral lessons. -- .
