TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greteman,Blaine
TI  - The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England
SN  - 9781139811897 (ebook)
AV  - PR438.C55 G74 2013
U1  - 820.9/354 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Children in literature
KW  - Youth in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139811897
ER  -