Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood

Displaying careful scholarship, sophisticated use of contemporary literary theory, and close readings of texts while recovering and analyzing materials from more than two centuries of British and other Anglophone cultural history, this collection of new essays traces the evolution of the Romantic child. The contributors play off one another, both within the three traditional historical periods��omantic, Victorian, and modern/postmodern��nd across intellectual and disciplinary categories.