| Description |
xiii, 266 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 16.Examining the Idea of Childhood: The Child in the Contemporary British Novel / Katherina Dodou |
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Contents note continued: 9.Degenerate ̀Innocents': Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Texts / Liz Thiel -- 10.̀She faded and drooped as a flower': Constructing the Child in the Child-Rescue Literature of Late Victorian England / Margot Hillel -- pt. III Edwardian, Modern, and Contemporary Literature (1900-2010) -- 11.Unadulterated Childhood: The Child in Edwardian Fiction / Adrienne E. Gavin -- 12.̀From the Enchanted Garden to the Steps of My Father's House': The Dissentient Child in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction / Andrew F. Humphries -- 13.Baby Tuckoo among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period / Paul March-Russell -- 14.The Post-War Child: Childhood in British Literature in the Wake of World War II / Pat Pinsent -- 15.Shackled by Past and Parents: The Child in British Children's Literature after 1970 / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Child in British Literature: An Introduction / Adrienne E. Gavin -- pt. I Medieval and Early Modern Literature (1200-1700) -- 2.̀That child may doon to fadres reverence': Children and Childhood in Middle English Literature / Daniel T. Kline -- 3.Shakespeare's ̀terrible infants'?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth / Katie Knowles -- 4.Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in Caroline England / Lucy Munro -- 5.̀Children read for their Pleasantness': Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century / Edel Lamb -- pt. II Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, and Victorian Literature (1700-1900) -- 6.Crusoe's Children: Robinson Crusoe and the Culture of Childhood in the Eighteenth Century / Andrew O'Malley -- 7.Irony and Performance: The Romantic Child / Roderick McGillis -- 8.Angelic, Atavistic, Human: The Child of the Victorian Period / Naomi Wood -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children in literature.
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962- editor
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| LC no. |
2011048630 |
| ISBN |
9780230348271 (hardback) |
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