With Thomas Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the long eighteenth century.[...]

Violence, conflict, and war challenge everyday understandings about the 'nature' of children and boundaries of childhood. In the disruption and destruction of the lives of children, their families and communities, childhood itself transforms and takes shape. Children, like others, are both subject t[...]

In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's consumer culture - and the com modification of childhood itself - by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children's clothing industry. Cook describes how, in the early twentieth century, merchants,[...]