Chapter 1 Introduction: The Romantic Cultures of Infancy

Chapter 2 ‘A detached peninsula’: Infancy in the Work of Thomas De Quincey

Chapter 3 William Blake’s Infant Joy

Chapter 4 The Infant, the Mother, and the Breast in the Paintings of Marguerite Gérard

Chapter 5 Mother at the Source: Romanticism and Infant Education

Chapter 6 Coleridge, the Ridiculous Child, and the Limits of Romanticism

Chapter 7 Educational Experiments: Childhood Sympathy, Regulation, and Object-Relations in Maria Edgeworth’s Writings About Education

Chapter 8 ‘Advice […] by one as insignificant as a MOUSE’: Human and Non-human Infancy in Eighteenth-Century Moral Animal Tales

Chapter 9 William Godwin, Romantic-Era Historiography and the Political Cultures of Infancy

Chapter 10 Experimenting with Children: Infants in the Scientific Imagination