Fashioning childhood in the eighteenth century : age and identity / edited by Anja Müller.

Aldershot : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006.

xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Based on a conference.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-233) and index.

doctor and the child / Adriana S. Benzaquén -- Children as patients in German-speaking regions in the eighteenth century / Iris Ritzmann -- Observing children in an early journal of psychology / Anthony Krupp -- The legal status of children in eighteenth-century England / Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos -- Children, adolescents and fashionable urban society in eighteenth-century England / Peter Borsay -- The child in the visual culture of consumption 1790-1830 / Patricia Crown -- Locke's education or Rousseau's freedom / Christoph Houswitschka -- Fashioning age and identity / Anja Müller -- Engaging identity / Dorothy Johnson -- Greuze and the ideology of infant nursing in eighteenth-century France / Bernadette Fort -- Childhood and juvenile delinquency in eighteenth-century Newgate calendars / Uwe Böker -- Tales of miracle or lessons of morality? / Sonja Fielitz -- Defoe's children / Klaus Peter Jochum -- Fictionalizing foundlings / Jan Hollm -- Winding up the clock / Dirk Vanderbeke -- Gendered childhoods / Brigitte Claser -- Fashioning the child author / Peter Sabor.