Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs : Reproduction and Retrospection, 1820 - 1850 /

This book views Romantic literature s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shel...

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Main Authors: Turner, Beatrice
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2
Summary: This book views Romantic literature s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin Jr, children of William Godwin, shared the predicament of being both real and literary children. All the children of authors who helped shape culturally-definitive Romantic-period ideas about childhood, they wrote back to their fathers in order to understand and to resist th
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XV, 245 pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319649702
Index Number: PN760
CLC: I106
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Family, the Child, and the Memorial -- 3. Hartley Coleridge's 'little art of numbers': writing the child -- 4. Sara Coleridge and the 'mother's part': embodying the child -- 5. Mary Shelley's 'beloved acts': performing family feelings -- 6. William Godwin Jr and the 'ties of blood': after the family of feeling.