Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs : Reproduction and Retrospection, 1820-1850.
Turner, Beatrice.
2017
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Title
Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs : Reproduction and Retrospection, 1820-1850.
Author
Turner, Beatrice.
ISBN
9783319649702
3319649701
9783319649696 (print)
3319649698
9783319649719 (print)
331964971X
9783319879147 (print)
3319879146
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Language
English
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1 online resource (255 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2 doi
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PN1-PN6790
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800
Summary
This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin Jr, children of William Godwin, shared the predicament of being both 'real' and 'literary' children. All the children of authors who helped shape culturally-definitive Romantic-period ideas about childhood, they wrote back to their fathers in order to understand and to resist the ways in which they were produced by paternal texts which foreclose the possibility of the child's own regeneration. This study proposes that through this predicament, and their responses to it, the literature of the period between the Romantic and the Victorian periods comes into focus, marked by an anxiety not of influence, but of reproduction. It suggests that one reason why this period has tended to disappear from view lies in the sense of historical and aesthetic difference, and productive failure, which this study uncovers.
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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations and Naming Conventions
List of Figures
Abstract
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Family, the Child, and the Memorial
William Godwin and the Rational Family
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantic Child
â#x80;#x98;Marble Monumentsâ#x80;#x99; and Public Autopsies: Debates in Early Nineteenth-Century Biography
Chapter 3 Hartley Coleridgeâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Little Art of Numbersâ#x80;#x99;: Writing the Child
â#x80;#x98;Real Hartleyâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Picture Hartleyâ#x80;#x99;: STC Writes His Son(s)
â#x80;#x98;I Could Say Much of Him as a Father.

Much Could I Say as an Instructorâ#x80;#x99;: Hartley Writes STCHartley and the Romantic Child
Chapter 4 Sara Coleridge and the â#x80;#x98;Motherâ#x80;#x99;s Partâ#x80;#x99;: Embodying the Child
â#x80;#x98;Child and Man-Child Are Perfect Synonimiesâ#x80;#x99;: Gender and the Romantic Child
â#x80;#x98;I Inherited that Uneasy Health of His, Which Kept Us Apartâ#x80;#x99;: Writing the Paternal Body
â#x80;#x98;Sad Experience, Strong Forebodingâ#x80;#x99;: Mothering and the Romantic Child
Chapter 5 Mary Shelleyâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Beloved Lessonsâ#x80;#x99;: Performing and Deforming Family Feeling

Â#x80;#x98;Reducing Novel Theories of Education to Practiceâ#x80;#x99;: Nature and Culture, Speculation and Experimentation in Godwinâ#x80;#x99;s Educational Writingâ#x80;#x98;The Monument of the Last Generationâ#x80;#x99;: Shelleyâ#x80;#x99;s Memorials of Godwin
â#x80;#x98;Strange Partsâ#x80;#x99;: Family Performances in Shelleyâ#x80;#x99;s Fiction
Matildaâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Beloved Lessonsâ#x80;#x99;
Maurice and the â#x80;#x98;Pretendedâ#x80;#x99; Family
Biological Optimism: Lodore and Falknerâ#x80;#x99;s Happy Families
Chapter 6 William Godwin Jr and the â#x80;#x98;Ties of Bloodâ#x80;#x99;: After the Family of Feeling

Â#x80;#x98;He felt that he [â#x80;Œ] was born to better thingsâ#x80;#x99;: Family Genius in Godwinâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Memoirâ#x80;#x99;â#x80;#x98;Some monstrous thing that nature had createdâ#x80;#x99;: Transgressing the Borders of the Natural Family in Godwin Jrâ#x80;#x99;s Fiction
â#x80;#x98;They almost disavowed my affinity to the speciesâ#x80;#x99;: Empathy And Evolution in â#x80;#x98;The Executionerâ#x80;#x99;
â#x80;#x98;Henceforth we will be one, single and indissolubleâ#x80;#x99;: Sharing Blood and Sharing Minds in Transfusion
Epilogue
Bibliography

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