Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (Paperback)

Introduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy                                                                     

1.  ‘A detached peninsula’: infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey.

     Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy                                                                           

2.  William Blake’s Infant Joy.

     Robert Rix                                                                                                                          

3.  The infant, the mother, and the breast in the paintings of Marguerite Gerard.

     Loren Lerner                                                                                                                      

4.  Mother at the source: romanticism and infant education.

     Robert A. Davis                                                                                                                  

5. Coleridge, the ridiculous child, and the limits of Romanticism.

    Andrew McInnes                                                                                                                 

6. Educational experiments: childhood sympathy, regulation and object relations in Maria Edgeworth’s

     Charles Armstrong                                                                                                             

7.  ‘Advice [...] by one as insignificant as a MOUSE’: human and non-human infancy in eighteenth-century moral animal tales.

     Anja Hoing                                                                                                                         

8.  William Godwin, Romantic-era historiography and the political
cultures of infancy.

     John-Erik Hansson                                                                                                                        

9.  Experimenting with children: infants in the scientific imagination.

     Lisa Ann Robertson                                                                                                            

10.  ‘A wretch so sad, so lorn’: the feral child and the Romantic cultures of infancy.