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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, autobiographers and diarists adopted new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments.
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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, autobiographers and diarists adopted new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. The author looks at the connection between these developments. Autobiographical texts are set within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book shows how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
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