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TIME OF BEAUTY, TIME OF FEAR
THE ROMANTIC LEGACY IN THE LITERATURE OF CHILDHOOD |
| By: |
James Holt McGavran (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£32.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1609381009 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781609381004 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2012 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Synopsis: |
It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in "Social Contract" and of experiential education in "Emile." His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood the idea that children have a special knowledge of nature, politics, and spirituality to teach their elders as well as the other way around. William Wordsworth s assertion in the Intimations Ode that children s souls come trailing clouds of glory from God has continued to haunt Western literature and culture in spite of attacks from writers and critics from then until now, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Robert Thomas Malthus, T. S. Eliot, Judy Blume, Jerome McGann, and Jacqueline Rose.Displaying careful scholarship, sophisticated use of contemporary literary theory, and close readings of texts while recovering and analyzing materials from more than two centuries of British and other Anglophone cultural history, this collection of new essays traces the evolution of the Romantic child. The contributors play off one another, both within the three traditional historical periods Romantic, Victorian, and modern/postmodern and across intellectual and disciplinary categories."Time of Beauty, Time of Fear" offers a stunning array of essays. In some, the authors focus on canonical texts by such writers as Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and Mrs. Molesworth. Other authors consider the Victorian concerns with missionary literature for children and with the boyish pastime of collecting bird s nests, folk voices of the 1960s, homeschooling, the Teletubbies television program, and Alan Moore s "Promethea" series of graphic novels. Measured in terms of both range and quality, this volume is destined to become essential reading for scholars from numerous disciplines.ContributorsJennifer Smith DanielElizabeth A. DolanRichard FlynnElizabeth GarganoMary Ellis GibsonDorothy H. McGavranRoderick McGillisClaudia MillsJochen PetzoldMalini RoyAndrew J. SmythJan Susina" |
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US |
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University of Iowa Press |
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