Obras de James Janeway
A Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of Several… (1828) 77 cópias
Memoirs of J. Janeway and S. Pearce (1824) 1 exemplar(es)
A token for mariners : containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and… 1 exemplar(es)
Heaven upon earth; or, Jesus the best friend of man. With history of the Janeway family by F.A. Cox 1 exemplar(es)
Acquainted with God 1 exemplar(es)
A Token for Children. The Second Part. Being a Farther Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful… 1 exemplar(es)
Heaven Upon Earth: Jesus the Best Friend in the Worst Times 1 exemplar(es)
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- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 121
- Popularidade
- #164,307
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10
As mentioned in my review of the first volume, this second part was quickly combined with the first, and the two were often published together, in whole and in part, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. A Token for Children is considered an immensely influential book, both as an early example of children's literature in the Anglophone world, and as a window into Puritan pedagogy. Given the importance that the Puritans placed on education, and the influence this had on the rest of the English-speaking world, this is significant. In America, the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather (1663-1728), was so impressed by the book that he created his own reworking of it, A Token for the Children of New England, which was almost always printed with the original Janeway work, in American editions.
It is easy for contemporary readers to dismiss this influential work as morbid, overly religious, and dark, but the realities of its time, particularly the fragility of young life - see my review of the first book for a discussion of infant mortality rates in 17th-century England - make it a book that must have offered great comfort to its readers. Given that this is so, I thought it was particularly interesting that in the first example here, we have a young child who is deeply influenced by the death of a sibling, when he himself is four years of age, something that leads him toward his conversion experience. Recommended to anyone who has read the first volume, although I suspect most readers who approach this work will read a later edition, that has both volumes printed together.… (mais)