American Children Through Their Books, 1700-1835 / / Monica Kiefer.
The status of American children at the beginning of the eighteenth century was so insignificant that writers apologized for wasting their talents on the subject and physicians seldom condescended to prescribe for them. the Changing attitude toward the child since then, however, can be classed as one...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1948] ©1948 |
| Year of Publication: | 1948 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Mental Pabulum of Godly Children
- War with the Devil
- The Art of Decent Behaviour
- Learning of Diverse Sorts
- Young Victims of Kitchen Physick
- Snares of the Old Deluder
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Index