Time of beauty, time of fear : the Romantic legacy in the literature of childhood / edited by James Holt McGavran, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGavran, James Holt, Jr., 1941-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, English--History and criticism.

Children's literature, English.

Children's literature, American--History and criticism.

Children's literature, American.

Romanticism.

Children in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Western lit

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60938-106-8

OCLC:

787843460