Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (1st ed. 2020)

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Synopsis
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9783030504298
Related ISBNs:
9783030504281
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Martina Domines Veliki
Edited by:
Cian Duffy

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