Upon the "discovery of childhood," as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse ideological purposes: childhood. As this book reveals, from the eighteenth century onwards, the child increasingly came into focus in literature as a mysterious creature. Now the child seems a strange being, constantly unsettling and alienating, although exposed to ongoing territorialization. This is possible because the space of 'childhood' is essentially blank and indefinite. Modernity, therefore, has discovered it as a zone, in the words of Friedrich Schiller of "boundless determinability."


About the Author
Davide Giuriato is professor of modern German literature at the University of Zurich. Paul Bowman studied history and philosophy in Sydney and Berlin before - on the cusp to the new millennium - turning his attention to translation.


Book Information
ISBN 9783035803167
Author Davide Giuriato
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Diaphanes AG
Publisher Diaphanes AG
Weight(grams) 278g
Dimensions(mm) 189mm * 120mm * 19mm