Gender and early modern constructions of childhood / Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh.
| Author/creator | Miller, Naomi J., 1960- |
| Other author | Yavneh, Naomi. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011. |
| Description | xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Women and gender in the early modern world Women and gender in the early modern world. ^A517921 |
| Contents | Introduction : early modern children as subjects : gender matters / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh -- A comfortable farewell : child-loss and funeral monuments in early modern England / Patricia Phillippy -- Parents, children, and responses to death in dream structures in early modern England / Carole Levin -- Lost and found : Veronese's Finding of Moses / Naomi Yavneh -- "Certein childeplayes remembred by the fayre ladies" : girls and their games / Katherine R. Larson -- The facts of Enfance : Rabelais, Montaigne, Paré, and French Renaissance paediatrics / Marie Rutkoski -- "Our little darlings" : Huguenot children and child-rearing in the letters of Louise de Coligny / Jane Couchman -- Anne Dormer and her children / Sara Mendelson -- "Obey and be attentive" : gender and household instruction in Shakespeare's The tempest / Kathryn Moncrief -- Producing girls on the English stage : performance as pedagogy in Mary Ward's convent schools / Caroline Bicks -- Boys to men : codpieces and masculinity in sixteenth-century Europe / Carole Collier Frick -- Marvell, boys, girls, and men : should we worry? / Diane Purkiss -- Martyrs and minors : allegories of childhood in Cervantes / Emilie L. Bergmann -- Portraiture and royal family ties : kings, queens, princes, and princesses in Caroline England / Julia Marciari Alexander -- "Second childishness" and the Shakespearean vision of ideal parenting / Gregory M. Colón Semenza. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011017702 |
| ISBN | 9781409429975 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1409429970 (hardback : alk. paper) |