Studies of Childhood

By: Sully, James

How does a child turn a word, a question, a fear, or a line on paper into a way of understanding the world? In Studies of Childhood, James Sully follows children's imaginative and intellectual lives through family conversations, observations, drawings, and remembered experience. His account ranges from language and make-believe to morality, adult authority, aesthetic pleasure, and the puzzling meanings of death and religion.

Based on the first edition of 1895, this Carter & Co. critical edition places Sully within the emergence of child psychology while examining the racial hierarchies, gender assumptions, and social privileges that shape his explanations. A scholarly introduction, selective notes, chronology, annotated further reading, and a new index help readers explore both his perceptive questions and the limits of his evidence.

Volume 01 of Classics of Childhood invites scholars, students, teachers, and curious general readers to reconsider how knowledge about children is made. This is a historical work to read critically and think with, rather than a source of contemporary parenting advice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1970316217
• ISBN13: 9781970316216
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Sapientia Editions
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"