Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture

by Ann Wierda Rowland

How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition. In the Romantic period the child came fully into its own as the object of increasing social concern and cultural investment; at the same time, modern literary culture consolidated itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521768144
• ISBN13: 9780521768146
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"