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The Land of Lost Content - Children and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Hardcover)
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The Land of Lost Content - Children and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Hardcover)
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The Land of Lost Content explores the ways in which
nineteenth-century French writers represented childhood and
children in their work. Ranging widely through poetry, fiction,
autobiographies, and letters, Rosemary Lloyd shows how writers as
diverse as Baudelaire and Hector Malot, George Sand and Pierre
Loti, Flaubert and Judith Gautier, gradually responded to changing
concepts of the self. After a study of the problems and motifs
which recur in autobiography, a chronological survey of fictional
texts shows the development of a series of myths of childhood,
successively debunked by later writers who in turn create their own
myths. Rosemary Lloyd goes on to explore such central themes as
reading, nature, and school. She examines the evolution of a
literature in which the child becomes the main protagonist, and
also addresses the question of whether the child figure is merely
used as a reductive stereotype. This is the first study of
childhood in nineteenth-century France to encompass autobiography,
major fiction, and works for children, and to use as its primary
focus the narratological difficulties of recreating childhood.
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