Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture [electronic resource] /
Benziman, G.author.
Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth; 2 Redeeming or Silencing the Child's Voice: Blake and Wordsworth; 3 Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity; 4 The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens; 5 Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.