Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy

Introduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy.- 1. 'A detached peninsula': infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey.- 2. William Blake's Infant Joy.- 3. The infant, the mother, and the breast in the paintings of Marguerite Gerard.- 4. Mother at the source: romanticism and infant education.- 5. Coleridge, the ridiculous child, and the limits of Romanticism.- 6. Educational experiments: childhood sympathy, regulation and object relations in Maria Edgeworth's writing about education.- 7. 'Advice [...] by one as insignificant as a MOUSE': human and non-human infancy in eighteenth-century moral animal tales.- 8. William Godwin, Romantic-era historiography and the political cultures of infancy.- 9. Experimenting with children: infants in the scientific imagination.- 10. 'A wretch so sad, so lorn': the feral child and the Romantic cultures of infancy.

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• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos de literatura infantil : geral
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900

Romantic literature;late eighteenth-century literature;children's literature;childhood studies;history of childhood;British and Irish Literature