PASTS AT PLAY

PASTS AT PLAY

ISBN 10: 1526171821 / ISBN 13: 9781526171825

Published by Manchester University Press, 2023

Seller Inventory # NWUS9781526171825

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Rachel Bryant Davies is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Gribling is a Visiting Researcher in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University

Bibliographic Details

Title: PASTS AT PLAY
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: NEW