Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood. GALIA BENZIMAN is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the Open University of Israel and specializes in British Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. Formerly a Fulbright and Dan David Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California Dickens Project, USA, she has published essays in JNT, Women's Studies, Partial Answers, Dickens Quarterly, The Victorian Newsletter, SEL (forthcoming), and other journals. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth - Redeeming or Silencing the Child's Voice: Blake and Wordsworth - Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity - The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens - Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy - Works Cited - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29392-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés