Author: G. Benziman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230348831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.