Overview
- Explores how we understand and access the perspectives of children and their voices in the past
- Draws together contributions from scholars of literary studies, history, and social work
- Advances our understanding of the the cultural construction of the concept of childhood
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Children’s Letters and Correspondence
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Images of the Self
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and constrained the parameters of youthful lives. Drawing on a range of different sources, including institutional records, interviews, artwork, diaries, letters, memoirs, and objects, this interdisciplinary volume uncovers the voices of historical children, and discusses the challenges of situating these voices, and interpreting juvenile agency and desire. Divided into four sections, the book considers children's voices in different types of historical records, examining children's letters and correspondence, as well as multimedia texts such as film, advertising and art, along with oral histories, and institutional archives.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristine Moruzi is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. She is author of Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (2012) and co-author of From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature (1840-1940) (2018).
Nell Musgrove is Senior Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University. She is the co-author of The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia: Just Like a Family? (Palgrave, 2018) and author of The Scars Remain: A Long History of Children’s Institutions and Forgotten Australians (2013).
Carla Pascoe Leahy is Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Honorary Associate at Museums Victoria. Her research examines the history of women and children in twentieth-century Australia. Her previous publications include Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered: Childhood in 1950s Australia (2011) and Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Voices from the Past
Book Subtitle: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove, Carla Pascoe Leahy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11896-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11895-2Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11896-9Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 342
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oral History, Cultural History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Childhood, Adolescence and Society