Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century

'This engagingly accessible volume brings eighteenth-century children alive in their historical contexts. Its essays on infant feeding, psychology, law, medicine, painting, fashion, schoolbooks, and leisure reading make it the place to start for learning about British, French, and German childhoods in the eighteenth century.' Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Stony Brook University, USA 'These essays make a valuable contribution to our understanding of childhood in Europe in the long eighteenth century' Hugh Cunningham, author of Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500, 2nd edn, 2005 ’... contains as much intellectual depth as it does interdisciplinary breadth... Fashioning Childhood is an interesting and illuminating volume. I both enjoyed reading it and learned much from it. Müller's essay collection, which covers Anglo-European cultural topics and literary texts from a wide range of disciplines, makes many worthwhile contributions to the study of Western conceptions of the 'the child' and the cultural phenomenom of 'childhood'.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction ’Taken together the articles collected in this volume present a wealth of fascinating material about what can be called British eighteenth-century children's culture.’ Anglia ’What we have are sixteen really stimulating essays on various different aspects of children's culture in Europe in the 'long' eighteenth-century... I commend it. It provides important contexts for the study of early children's books. Three of this year's Darton Award shortlist have come from Ashgate's rapidly expanding list, and Müller's volume is another very welcome addition to their 'Studies in childhood, 1700 To the Present' series.’ Children's Books History Society ’This collection of seventeen essays edited by Anja Müller is a most welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the construction and experience of childhood in the eighteenth century... Müller and her contributors are to be commended for the