This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values.
This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values.
Ute Frevert is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. From 2003 to 2007 she was professor of German history at Yale University and previously taught History at the Universities of Konstanz, Bielefeld and the Free University in Berlin. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of the modern period, the history of emotions, gender history and political history. Some of her best known work has examined the history of women and gender relations in modern Germany, social and medical politics in the nineteenth century, and the impact of military conscription from 1814 to the present day. Ute Frevert is an honorary professor at the Free University in Berlin and member of several scientific advisory boards. In 1998 she was awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize.
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Introduction 1: Uffa Jensen: Mrs Gaskell's Anxiety 2: Stephanie Olsen: Dickon's Trust 3: Margrit Pernau: Ashgari's Piety 4: Daniel Brückenhaus: Ralph's Compassion 5: Pascal Eitler: Doctor Dolittle's Empathy 6: Magdalena Beljan and Benno Gammerl: Wendy's Love 7: Ute Frevert: Piggy's Shame 8: Anja Laukötter: Lebrac's Pain 9: Bettina Hitzer: Jim Button's Fear 10: Jan Plamper: Ivan's Bravery 11: Juliane Brauer: Heidi's Homesickness 12: Joachim C. Häberlen: Ingrid's Boredom Epilogue: Translating Books, Translating Emotions
