Title The child in British literature : literary constructions of childhood, medieval to contemporary / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- The Child in British Literature: An Introduction; A.E. Gavin -- PART I: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE (1200-1700) -- 'That child may doon to fadres reverence': Children and Childhood in Middle English Literature; D.T. Kline -- Shakespeare's 'terrible infants'?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth; K. Knowles -- Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in Caroline England; L. Munro -- 'Children read for their Pleasantness': Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century; E. Lamb -- PART II: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY, ROMANTIC, AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE (1700-1900) -- Crusoe's Children: Robinson Crusoe and the Culture of Childhood in the Eighteenth Century; A.O'Malley -- Irony and Performance: The Romantic Child; R. McGillis -- Angelic, Culpable, Human: The Child of the Victorian Period; N. Wood -- Degenerate 'Innocents': Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Texts; L. Thiel -- 'She faded and drooped as a flower': Constructing the Child in the Child-Rescue Literature of Late-Victorian England; M. Hillel -- PART III:EDWARDIAN, MODERN, AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (1900-2010) -- Unadulterated Childhood: The Child in Edwardian Fiction; A.E. Gavin -- 'From the Enchanted Garden to the Steps of my Father's House': The Dissentient Child in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction; A.F. Humphries -- Baby Tuckoo Among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period; P. March-Russell -- The Post-War Child: Childhood in British Literature in the Wake of World War II; P. Pinsent -- Shackled by Past and Parents: The Child in British Children's Literature After 1970; K. Sands-O'Connor -- Examining the Idea of Childhood: The Child in the Contemporary British Novel; K. Dodou -- Index -- € Summary The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood Medieval to Contemporary is a collection of fifteen original essays which critically assess childhood in British literature from Medieval texts to contemporary fiction. Tracing changes and consistencies in the representation of childhood across eight centuries (1200 to 2010), the volume is distinctive in being the first book-length treatment of the child across such a wide range of British literary history. Gathering international expertise, the collection includes essays written by scholars in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Experts on childhood in key periods of literature, the contributors reassess and challenge standard views of the literary child, offering fascinating new readings and providing compelling evidence that childhood has been a vibrant element in British writing for over 800 years Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Children in literature. English literature -- History and criticism. Children's literature, English -- History and criticism Literary studies: general -- English. Age groups: children -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies. Literature. Children in literature Children's literature, English English literature Englisch Kind Motiv Literatur Literary studies: general. Age groups: children. Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962- ISBN 9780230361867 0230361862

Other Titles Literary constructions of childhood, medieval to contemporary

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