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. An
These essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian childre
Displaying careful scholarship, sophisticated use of contemporary literary theory, and close readings of texts while recovering and analyzing materials from mor
Judith Plotz explores the normative role that childhood played in Romantic literature. The Romantics claimed the discovery of childhood and idealized the child