Literature and the child
Subtitle: romantic continuations, postmodern contestations
By: edited by James Holt McGavran.
Contributors: McGavran, James Holt.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.; Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.; Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.; Postmodernism (Literature); Romanticism.
Description: "The Romantic myth of childhood as a trans-historical holy time of innocence and spirituality, uncorrupted by the adult world, has been subjected in recent years to increasingly serious interrogation. Was there ever really a time when mythic ideals were simple, pure, and uncomplicated?

The contributors to this book contend - although in widely differing ways and not always approvingly - that our culture is indeed still pervaded, in this postmodern moment of the very late twentieth century, by the Romantic conception of childhood which first emerged two hundred years ago."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.