Romanticism and childhood: the infantilization of British literary culture

Abstract

Introduction: the infantilization of British literary culture Part I. History of an Analogy: 'For the Savage is to Ages What the Child is to Years': 1. The child is father of the man 2. Infancy, poetry and the origins of language 3. Becoming human: animal, infant and developmental literary culture in the Romantic period Part II. Prattle and Trifles: 4. Retentive ears and prattling mouths: popular antiquarianism and childhood memory 5. One child's trifle is another man's relic: popular antiquarianism and childhood 6. The layers and forms of the child's mind: Scott, Wordsworth and antiquarianism.

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