Explores how emerging ideas of infancy and childhood gave Romantic writers and readers new ways of understanding history and literature.

These essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian childre

Priscilla Gilman had the greatest expectations for the birth of her first child. Growing up in New York City amongst writers, artists, and actors, Gilman experi

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its po

Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these con