The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form

by D.B. Ruderman

This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood confers on 19th-century poetry and culture, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367876671
• ISBN13: 9780367876678
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"