Call for Papers: Rhetoric of Didactic Children's Literature (3-5 January 2004)

Deadline: 29 September 2003

Soliciting abstracts for a panel comprising three 25-minute papers addressing the linguistic and rhetorical ways that childhood was "talked about" and constructed during the late eighteenth century. This period is concerned with the changing nature of childhood but also with the changing nature of parenthood, both motherhood and fatherhood. Primary works also address the question of how best to administer proper education and values to children, whether in early fiction/literature for children, novels for adults, or didactic treatises for children or parents.

Please email abstracts of no more than 200 words by September 29, 2003 to:

Rebecca Shapiro (e-mail: rshapiro@stac.edu)

This page last updated 15 September 2003.