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Narratives of child neglect in romantic and Victorian culture

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narratives of child neglect in romantic and Victorian culture/ Galia Benziman.
Author:	Benziman, Galia,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (p.)
Subject:	Children in literature. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230348837
ISBN:	9780230348837 (electronic bk.)

Narratives of child neglect in romantic and Victorian culture
Benziman, Galia,1968-

Narratives of child neglect in romantic and Victorian culture[electronic resource] /Galia Benziman. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth -- Redeeming or Silencing the Child's Voice: Blake and Wordsworth -- Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity -- The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens -- Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy -- Works Cited -- Index -- -- -- -- -- --.

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.

ISBN: 9780230348837 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613360571

Source: 498612Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

567731
Children in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR468.C5 / B46 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3556

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