The period under consideration is often overlooked and resistant to easy periodization
Explores how four authors of the period ‘wrote back’ to their parent generation, contesting the Romantic-era constructions of childhood, parenthood and education into which they were written by their author-fathers
First study to read Hartley and Sarah Coleridge together
The period under consideration is often overlooked and resistant to easy periodization Explores how four authors of the period ‘wrote back’ to their parent generation, contesting the Romantic-era constructions of childhood, parenthood and education into which they were written by their author-fathers First study to read Hartley and Sarah Coleridge together Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Beatrice Turner
Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley William Godwin Family Romantic poetry Childhood childhood studies
“Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs is remarkably thorough in terms of its scope, making fine differentiations in such a way that each text that Turner considers reveals itself as at once part of a larger tradition and yet uncompromisingly its own distinct object.” (D. B. Ruderman, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (1), 2019)