Contextualizing the popular topos of the neglected child in
nineteenth-century Britain within a large variety of texts and
discourses, this book isolates a strand in literary history that
has not been fully examined yet, and fills a gap in literary
criticism. Rereading Romantic poems, Victorian novels and social
documents of the period, it challenges the largely-accepted
narrative according to which the turn of the century witnessed a
clear transition from a Puritan, oppressive approach to children,
to a Romantic, liberating one. Narratives of Child Neglect
demonstrates that these contradictory trends continued to be a
shaping factor of British literature and society way into the late
nineteenth century. The book demonstrates the ways in which the
oppressive approach managed to survive in the subconscious of the
new discourses of childhood and traces a difficulty in representing
the child's subjectivity as valuable even in texts written by key
figures in the formation of the Romantic cult of childhood such as
Rousseau, Blake, Wordsworth, and Dickens.
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