Pretty creatures : children and fiction in the English Renaissance /
"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
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.