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

ISBN-13: 9783319649696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 245 str.

Beatrice Turner

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs is remarkably thorough in terms of its scope, making fine differentiations in such a way that each text that Turner considers reveals itself as at once part of a larger tradition and yet uncompromisingly its own distinct object." (D. B. Ruderman, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (1), 2019)

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Beatrice Turner is Research Facilitator in the Department of English and Creative Writing at University of Roehampton, UK.