Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood

2001 Childhood in literature

Author : Judith A. Plotz
Release : 2001
Genre : Childhood in literature
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Download or read book Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood written by Judith A. Plotz. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Plotz explores the normative role that childhood played in Romantic literature. The Romantics claimed the discovery of childhood and idealized the child as a model human being essentially connected to nature. Following an introduction which historicizes the Romantic notion of the child, the book examines discourses of childhood in the works of Wordsworth, Lamb, DeQuincey, and in writings by and about Hartley Coleridge, the poet's son. The final chapter focuses on literary treatments of childhood death, revisiting many of the theoretical issues laid out in the introduction.

Romanticism and Childhood

2012-05-24 Literary Criticism

Author : Ann Wierda Rowland
Release : 2012-05-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Romanticism and Childhood written by Ann Wierda Rowland. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition. In the Romantic period the child came fully into its own as the object of increasing social concern and cultural investment; at the same time, modern literary culture consolidated itself along vernacular, national lines. Romanticism and Childhood is the first study to examine the intersections of these historical developments and the first study to demonstrate that a rhetoric of infancy and childhood - the metaphors, images, figures and phrases repeatedly used to represent and conceptualize childhood - enabled Romantic writers to construct a national literary history and culture capable of embracing a wider range of literary forms.

Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy

2020-08-29 Literary Criticism

Author : Martina Domines Veliki
Release : 2020-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy written by Martina Domines Veliki. This book was released on 2020-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs

2017-10-17 Literary Criticism

Author : Beatrice Turner
Release : 2017-10-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs written by Beatrice Turner. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book views Romantic literature’s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin Jr, children of William Godwin, shared the predicament of being both ‘real’ and ‘literary’ children. All the children of authors who helped shape culturally-definitive Romantic-period ideas about childhood, they wrote back to their fathers in order to understand and to resist the ways in which they were produced by paternal texts which foreclose the possibility of the child’s own regeneration. This study proposes that through this predicament, and their responses to it, the literature of the period between the Romantic and the Victorian periods comes into focus, marked by an anxiety not of influence, but of reproduction. It suggests that one reason why this period has tended to disappear from view lies in the sense of historical and aesthetic difference, and productive failure, which this study uncovers.

Romanticism and Childhood

2012-05-24 Literary Criticism

Author : Ann Wierda Rowland
Release : 2012-05-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Romanticism and Childhood written by Ann Wierda Rowland. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how emerging ideas of infancy and childhood gave Romantic writers and readers new ways of understanding history and literature.

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