@article{1358513,
      recid = {1358513},
      author = {Turner, Beatrice.},
      title = {Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs : Reproduction and  Retrospection, 1820-1850.},
      publisher = {Springer International Publishing,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (255 pages)},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1358513},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2},
}