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Chapter 1: Introduction Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore Little Differences: Children, Their Culture and Books in the Study of Early Modern Europe Chapter 2 Erica Fudge Learning to Laugh: Children and Being Human in Early Modern Thought Chapter 3 Michael Witmore 'Oh that I Had Her:' Experimental Knowledge and the Voice of the Possessed Child Chapter 4 Marianne Novy Adopted Children in Shakespeare's Romance and Construction of Heredity, Nurture, and Parenthood Chapter 5 Claire M. Busse 'Pretty Fictions' and 'Little Stories:' Child Actors on the Early Modern Stage Chapter 6 Michael Mascuch A Child Minister's 'Power in the Word:' The Apparition of Sarah Wight Chapter 7 Kristina Straub 'In the Posture of Children:' Eighteenth-Century British Servants and Children Chapter 8 Cynthia Koepp Curiosity, Science and Experiential Learning in the Eighteenth Century: Reading the Spectacle de la nature Chapter 9 Jill Shefrin 'Governesses to Their Children:' Royal and Aristocratic Mothers Educating Daughters in the Reign of George III Chapter 10 Patricia Crain Spectral Literacy: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes Chapter 11 Jan Fergus Solace in Books: Reading Trifling Adventures at Rugby School Chapter 12 William McCarthy Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics: Mrs. Thrale, Mrs. Barbauld, M. Itard Chapter 13 Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker Otto's Watch: Enlightenment, Virtue and Time in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 14 Jürgen Schlumbohm The School of Life: Reflections on Socialization in Pre-Industrial Germany