Texts on Social Histories of Childhood

posted to Child_lit on 16 Sep 1996, by kjphanna@whale.st.usm.edu

Well, I've compiled a list of books and articles, in no particular order, that people suggested on the history of childhood. They tend to vary as to focus (historical period and/or child development vs. education vs. reading, etc.). I've included full bibliographic cites when possible.

Nodelman, Perry. Bibliography in chapter 5 of The Pleasures of Children's Literature (pp. 89-90). White Plains: Longman, 1996. See also the instructor's manual to this book.

Hanawalt, Barbara. Growing Up in Medieval London.

Tyson, Nance Lui. Growing Up in Edwardian Britain.
----. Growing Up in the Second World War

Garrett, Elizabeth Donaghy. At Home: the American Family 1750-1870.

Cleverley, John, and D.C. Phillips. Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock. 1976. New York: Teachers College, 1986.

Lyman Richard. History of Childhood.(?)

Postman, Neil. The Disappearance of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1982.

Shahar, Shulamith. Childhood in the Middle Ages. Trans. Chaya Galai. London: Routledge, 1990.

DeMause, Lloyd. History of Childhood.

Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost.

Avery, Gillian. Childhood's Pattern: A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children's Fiction 1770-1950. London: Hodder, 1975.
---. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621-1922. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
---. The Echoing Green: Memories of Victorian Youth. New York: Viking, 1974.

Townsend, John Rowe. Written for Children. 1965. New York: HarperTrophy, 1992.

Hawes, Joseph. American Childhood. 1985.
---. Growing Up in America. 1985.

Pinchbeck, Ivy, and Margaret Hewitt. Children in English Society. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1969-73.

Pollock, Linda. Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.
---. A Lasting Relationship: Parents and Children over Three Centuries. Hanover: UP of New England, 1987.

Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Kincaid, James. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Newubauer, John. Fin de Siecle Culture of Adolescence. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.

Miller Alice. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. Trans. Hildegarde and Hunter Hannum. New York: Farrar, 1980.

Elkind, David> The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1981.

Bettelheim, Bruno, and Karen Zelan. On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaning. New York: Vintage, 1982.

Nodelman, Perry. "The Other: Orientalism, Colonialism, and Children's Literature." ChLAQ 17 (1992): 29-35.

Richardson, Alan. "Nineteenth Century Children's Satire and the Ambivalent Reader." ChLAQ 15 (1990): 122-26.

Coles, Robert. The Moral Life of Children. Boston: Houghton, 1986.
---. The Political Life of Children. Boston: Houghton, 1986.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. White Teacher. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1979.
---. Wally's Stories: conversation in the Kindergarten. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1981.
---. Boys and Girls: Superheroes int he Doll Corner. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
---. Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.
---. Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
---. The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter: The Use of Storytelling in the Classroom. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.

Matthews, Gareth B. Philosophy and the Young Child. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980.
---. Dialogues with Children. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984.

Hardyment, Christina. Perfect Parents.
---. Dream Babies: Child Care from Locke to Spock. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.