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Pasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914
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Ideal for readers interested in children's culture, history education, and British historical imagination, this book will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of nineteenth-century cultural history and interdisciplinary studies.
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.
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This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past.
It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants.
Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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Pasts at Play has been praised for its insightful contribution to the study of informal learning, highlighting how understanding children's engagement outside formal education enriches the history of education. Siân Pooley from Victorian Studies notes its valuable exploration beyond school gates.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526171825
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 31 black & white illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Rachel Bryant Davies
- Edited by Barbara Gribling
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 390g
Pages: 272
About the Author
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
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