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Time of beauty, time of fear : the romantic legacy in the literature of childhood /
It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emile. His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood - the idea that children h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emile. His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood - the idea that children have a special knowledge of nature, politics, and spirituality to teach their elders as well as the other way around. William Wordsworth's assertion in the "Intimations Ode" that children's souls come "trailing clouds of glory" from God has continued to haunt. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609381066 1609381068 |