The Child in British Literature [electronic resource] : Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary /
Gavin, A.editor.
The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Child in British Literature: An Introduction; Part I: Medieval and Early Modern Literature (1200-1700); 2 'That child may doon to fadres reverence': Children and Childhood in Middle English Literature; 3 Shakespeare's 'terrible infants'?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth; 4 Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in Caroline England; 5 'Children read for their Pleasantness': Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century; Part II: Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, and Victorian Literature (1700-1900)
6 Crusoe's Children: Robinson Crusoe and the Culture of Childhood in the Eighteenth Century7 Irony and Performance: The Romantic Child; 8 Angelic, Atavistic, Human: The Child of the Victorian Period; 9 Degenerate 'Innocents': Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Texts; 10 'She faded and drooped as a flower': Constructing the Child in the Child-Rescue Literature of Late Victorian England; Part III: Edwardian, Modern, and Contemporary Literature (1900-2010); 11 Unadulterated Childhood: The Child in Edwardian Fiction
12 'From the Enchanted Garden to the Steps of My Father's House': The Dissentient Child in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction13 Baby Tuckoo among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period; 14 The Post-War Child: Childhood in British Literature in the Wake of World War II; 15 Shackled by Past and Parents: The Child in British Children's Literature after 1970; 16 Examining the Idea of Childhood: The Child in the Contemporary British Novel; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Children's literature.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Children's Literature.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
British and Irish Literature.