Chapter 5 'Rapt Up with Joy': Children's Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England

This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children's emotional responses to death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues that children expressed diverse and conflicting emotions, from fear and anxiety, to...

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Main Author: Newton, Hannah (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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