The child in British literature: literary constructions of childhood, medieval to contemporary

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readingsof childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. ADRIENNE E. GAVIN Reader in English at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her publications include 'Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell' (2004), critical editions of Caroline Clive's 'Paul Ferroll' (2008), Henry de Vere Stacpoole's 'The Blue Lagoon' (2010), and C. L. Pirkis's 'The Experiences of LovedayBrooke, Lady Detective' (2010), and the co-edited collections 'Mystery in Children's Literature' (2001), 'Childhood in Edwardian Fiction' (2009), and 'Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle' (2011). INDICE: 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 'terribleinfants'?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth; 'K.Knowles' - Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in CarolineEngland; '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 andChildhood 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34827-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 17/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés