The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Child in British Literature: An Introduction; A.E.Gavin PART I: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE (1200-1700) 'That child may doon to fadres reverence': Children and Childhood in Middle English Literature; D.T.Kline Shakespeare's 'terrible infants'?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth; K.Knowles Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in Caroline England; L.Munro 'Children read for their Pleasantness': Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century; E.Lamb PART II: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY, ROMANTIC, AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE (1700-1900) Crusoe's Children: Robinson Crusoe and the Culture of Childhood in the Eighteenth Century; A.O'Malley Irony and Performance: The Romantic Child; R.McGillis Angelic, Culpable, Human: The Child of the Victorian Period; N.Wood Degenerate 'Innocents': Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Texts; L.Thiel 'She faded and drooped as a flower': Constructing the Child in the Child-Rescue Literature of Late-Victorian England; M.Hillel PART III:EDWARDIAN, MODERN, AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (1900-2010) Unadulterated Childhood: The Child in Edwardian Fiction; A.E.Gavin 'From the Enchanted Garden to the Steps of my Father's House': The Dissentient Child in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction; A.F.Humphries Baby Tuckoo Among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period; P.March-Russell The Post-War Child: Childhood in British Literature in the Wake of World War II; P.Pinsent Shackled by Past and Parents: The Child in British Children's Literature After 1970; K.Sands-O'Connor Examining the Idea of Childhood: The Child in the Contemporary British Novel; K.Dodou Index