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Romanticism and childhood : the infantilization of British literary culture /
"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 chi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
93. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.