Romanticism and childhood : the infantilization of British literary culture

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Author:

Wierda Rowland, Ann, 1966-

ISBN:

9780521768146

9781107479678

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Physical Description:

vii, 305 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 93

Romanticism and childhood

Contents:

Introduction: the infantilization of British literary culture -- Part I. History of an Analogy: 'For the Savage is to Ages What the Child is to Years': -- 1. The child is father of the man -- 2. Infancy, poetry and the origins of language -- 3. Becoming human: animal, infant and developmental literary culture in the Romantic period -- Part II. Prattle and Trifles: -- 4. Retentive ears and prattling mouths: popular antiquarianism and childhood memory -- 5. One child's trifle is another man's relic: popular antiquarianism and childhood -- 6. The layers and forms of the child's mind: Scott, Wordsworth and antiquarianism.

Subject Term:

English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Romanticism -- Great Britain.

Children in literature.

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