Overview
- Contributes to an ongoing remapping by scholars to the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism
- Appeals to scholars of the history and representation of childhood and children’s literature
- Studies British literature from the long eighteenth century
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This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martina Domines Veliki is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Cian Duffy is Professor and Chair of English Literature at Lund University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy
Editors: Martina Domines Veliki, Cian Duffy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50429-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50428-1Published: 30 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50431-1Published: 30 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50429-8Published: 29 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 279
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Children's Literature, British and Irish Literature