How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition. In the Romantic period the child came fully into its own as the object of increasing social concern and cultural investment; at the same time, modern literary culture consolidated itself along vernacular, national lines. Romanticism and Childhood is the first study to examine the intersections of these historical developments and the...
How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical s...
It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international `English' in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices.
It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international `English' in the 1800s, expressing love for books and author...
