Edward Barlow says goodbye
Tom Shippey, 4 August 1994
Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos.
Yale, 335 pp., £25, April 1994,0 300 05597 8 Show More
by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos.
Yale, 335 pp., £25, April 1994,
“... blow of the hammer it flew in pieces; but if it was soft, it bowed, and would not touch the stone”.’ This ‘uncomplicated’ model of adolescence in other times and cultures has suffered blow after blow since Maitland’s time (1895), not to mention that of Margaret Mead thirty years later. The other model Ben-Amos has to deal with is the ... ”