Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

Andrew O’Malley is Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century (2003) and of Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe (2012).

• 1. Introduction: Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods - Andrew O’Malley.- 2. Age, Status, and Reading in the 18th Century - Teresa Michals.- 3. Circulating Childhood in Eighteenth-Century England: The Cultural Work of Periodicals - Anja Müller.- 4. Wards, and Apprentices: The Legal and Literary Construction of the Familial Position of the Child - Cheryl Nixon.- 5. 'Pray let none see this impertinent Epistle’: Children’s Letters and Children in Letters at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century - Adrianna Benzaquén.- 6. Learned Pigs and Literate Children: Becoming Human in Eighteenth-Century Literary Cultures - Ann Wierda Rowland.- 7. Fable and Family in Sarah Trimmer's Fabulous Histories - Heather Klemann.- 8. Eighteenth-Century Children’s Poetry and the Complexities of the Child’s Mind - Louise Joy.- 9. "Powers Expanding Slow": Children's "Unfolding" Minds in Radical Writing of the 1790s - Susan Manly.- 10.  Mediocrity: Mechanical Training and Music forGirls - Donelle Ruwe.- 11. From Wild Fictions to Accurate Observations: Domesticating Wonder in Children’s Literature of the Late Eighteenth-Century - Richard De Ritter.- 12. "To Communicate Energy": Eliza Fenwick Cultures the New-World Child - Lissa Paul.- 13. In the Margins: Children and Graphic Satire in the Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century - Sebastian Mitchell.- 14. Redefining the Gothic Child: An Educational Experiment? - Jessica Evans.- 15. Lemuel Hayes and "Little Adults": Race and the Prehistory of Childhood in Early New England - Jennifer Thorn.