In England at the turn of the nineteenth century, the advent of
Romanticism coincided with major changes in ideas about children
and childhood, eventually resulting in a great flowering of
imaginative children's literature. In contrast to the previous
century's stern moral tales, children's books began to appeal to
the unsullied powers of perception, cognition, and creativity
thought by the Romantics to reside in pre-adolescents, and also to
the anxieties of adults who longed to reclaim their own lost
childhood selves.
These essays document and examine the transformation of children's
literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's
influence on Victorian children's literature. Using a variety of
critical approaches, including neo-historicist, feminist, mythic,
reader-response, and formalist, the contributors challenge
established dichotomies in children's literature regarding morality
and imagination. Rather, as they demonstrate, a complex interplay
of instruction and delight ran throughout nineteenth-century texts
for and about children. In addition, they document some of the ways
the child was perceived and interpreted, secularized and
spiritualized, by such writers as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, Mrs. Sherwood, Hesba Stretton (Sarah
Smith), Juliana Ewing, George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Frances
Hodgson Burnett, and E. Nesbit.
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