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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McGavran, James Holt, Jr., 1941-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • James Holt McGavran, Jr., and Jennifer Smith Daniel; Missing But Presumed Alive: Lost Children of Lost Parents in Two Major Romantic Poems, "Michael" and "Christabel"
  • James Holt McGavran, Jr.; Mary Wollstonecraft's Childish Resentment: The Angry Girl, the Wrongs and the Rights of Woman
  • Malini Roy; That This Here Box Be in the Natur of a Trap: Maria Edgeworth's Pedagogical Gardens, Ireland, and the Education of the Poor
  • Andrew J. Smyth.
  • Financial Investments vs. Moral Principles: Charlotte Smith's Children's Books and Slavery
  • Elizabeth A. DolanThe Innocent Child in the House of History: Storytelling and the Sensibility of Loss in Molesworth's The Tapestry Room
  • Elizabeth Gargano; Oversleeping Oneself: Elizabeth Gaskell's Wake-Up Call in Wives and Daughters
  • Dorothy H. McGavran; The Perils of Reading: Children's Missionary Magazines and the Making of Victorian Imperialist Subjectivity
  • Mary Ellis Gibson.
  • The End Was Not Ignoble? Bird-Nesting between Cruelty, Manliness, and Science Education in British Children's Periodicals, 1850-1900
  • Jochen PetzoldMy Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music
  • Richard Flynn; Rousseau Redux: Romantic Re-Visions of Nature and Freedom in Recent Children's Literature about Homeschooling
  • Claudia Mills; Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting
  • Jan Susina; The Sustaining Paradox: Romanticism and Alan Moore's Promethea Novels
  • Roderick McGillis; Notes on Contributors; Index.