Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-century England

Download or read book Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-century England written by James Holt McGavran and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England at the turn of the 19th century, the advent of Romanticism coincided with major changes in ideas about children and childhood, eventually resulting in a great flowering of 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.