The Child in British Literature

Chapter 1 The Child in British Literature: An Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘That child may doon to fadres reverence’: Children and Childhood in Middle English Literature

Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s ‘terrible infants’?: Children in Richard III, King John, and Macbeth

Chapter 4 Infant Poets and Child Players: The Literary Performance of Childhood in Caroline England

Chapter 5 ‘Children read for their Pleasantness’: Books for Schoolchildren in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 6 Crusoe’s Children: Robinson Crusoe and the Culture of Childhood in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7 Irony and Performance: The Romantic Child

Chapter 8 Angelic, Atavistic, Human: The Child of the Victorian Period

Chapter 9 Degenerate ‘Innocents’: Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Texts

Chapter 10 ‘She faded and drooped as a flower’: Constructing the Child in the Child-Rescue Literature of Late Victorian England

Chapter 11 Unadulterated Childhood: The Child in Edwardian Fiction

Chapter 12 ‘From the Enchanted Garden to the Steps of My Father’s House’: The Dissentient Child in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction

Chapter 13 Baby Tuckoo among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period

Chapter 14 The Post-War Child: Childhood in British Literature in the Wake of World War II

Chapter 15 Shackled by Past and Parents: The Child in British Children’s Literature after 1970

Chapter 16 Examining the Idea of Childhood: The Child in the Contemporary British Novel