1. Analyse continuities and discontinuities of perceptions and approaches to children across a range of fictional and literary representations of children and childhoods, both historical and contemporary, in relation to analyses provided by Taylor’s (2013)

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood. (London: Routledge) and C. Jarzebowski and T. Safley’s (eds.) (2014) Childhood and Emotion across Cultures 1450–1800.

(Abingdon: Routledge).