| Contents |
The child in British literature: an introdcution / Adrienne E. Gavin -- 'That child may doon to fadres reverence': children and childhood in middle english literature / Daniel T. Kline -- Shakespear's 'terrible infants'?: children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth / Katie Knowles -- Infant poets and child players: the literary performance of childhood in Caroline England / Lucy Munro -- 'Children read for the pleasantness': books for schoolchildren in teh Seventeenth century / Edel Lamb -- Crusoe's children: Robinson Crusoe and the culture of childhood in the Eighteenth century / Andre O'Malley -- Irony and performance: the romantic child / Roderick McGillis -- Angelic, atavistic,human: the child of the Victorian period / Naomi Wood -- Degenerate 'innocents': childhood, deviance, and criminality in Nineteenth-century texts / Liz Thiel -- 'She faded and drooped as a flower': constructing the child in the child-rescue literature of late Victorian England / Margot Hillel -- Unadulterated childhood: the child in Edwardian fiction / Adrienne E. Gavin -- 'From the enchanted garden to the steps of my father's house': the dissentient child in teh early Twentieth-century British fiction / Andrew F. Humphries -- Baby Tuckoo among the grown-ups: modernism and childhood in the interwar period / Paul March-Russell -- The post-war child: childhood in British literature in teh wake of World War II / Pat Pinsent -- Shackled by past and parents: the child in British children's literature after 1970 / Karen Sands-O'Conner -- Examining the idea of choldhood: the child in the contemporary British novel / Katherina Dodou |
