Title: Literature and the child
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.
Subjects: Books and reading, Children's literature, American, Postmodernism (Literature), Children's literature, English, History and criticism, Romanticism, Children, Children's literature, english--history and criticism, Children's literature, american--history and criticism, Children--books and reading, Children--books and reading--english-speaking countries, Pr990 .l58 1999, 820.9/9282
Places: English-speaking countries