British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780367140427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str.

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Opis

Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. As Clapp-Itnyre shows, the agency afforded children as singers meant that they were actively engaged with the text, music, and pictures of their hymnals. Informed by extensive archival research, British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 brings this understudied genre of Victorian culture to critical light.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Re-tuning the history of childhood with chords and verses; Creating communities for song: class and gender in children’s hymn-singing experiences; Re-writing the history of children’s literature: three periods of children’s hymnody; Erasing child-adult distinctions: ’crossover’ children’s hymn-texts and tunes; Staging the child: agency and stasis for children in art and hymn-book illustrations; Reforming society: missionary, bands of hope, and bands of mercy hymns; Resurrecting the child: the cult of the deathbed, hymns of faith, and children of life; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre is Professor of English at Indiana University East, USA.