Miller, Naomi J.. Gender and early modern constructions of childhood

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Early modern children as subjects : gender matters / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh -- Conceptualizing childhood : loss and celebration -- A comfortable farewell : child-loss and funeral monuments in early modern England -- Parents, children, and responses to death in dream structures in early modern England / Patricia Philippy, 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 -- Imprinting identity : education and social training -- The facts of enfance : Rabelais's satire of sixteenth-century French pediatrics / 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 -- Transitional stages : growing up and growing old -- 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 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. Colon Semenza