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1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance -- Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559 -- Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater -- Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction -- The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions |
| Summary |
"In Pretty Creatures, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during the English Renaissance."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Children in literature.
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Theater and children -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Theater and children -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Children -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Children -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Children
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English literature -- Early modern
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Children in literature
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Theater and children
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007005922 |
| ISBN |
9780801463556 |
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0801463556 |
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