Poor monkey : the child in literature
1957, First Edition. London : Rockliff. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388815
Physical description: xiv, 297 pages 22 cm. Notes: ""Now, God help thee, poor monkey!" Lady Macduff to her son, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene ii. Half-title. Renier. Pictorial dust jacket. Publishers' blurb on upper flap and continued on lower flap. Publishers' mark on title page. Red, linen-texture cloth edition binding. Author, title and publisher blocked in gold on spine.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index. Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The "Cult of sensibility" and the "Romantic child" -- Chapter Two. Blake's Innocence and Experience -- Chapter Three. Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Chapter Four. From Coleridge to Dickens -- Chapter Five. The child in Dickens -- Chapter Six. George Eliot and Maggie Tulliver -- Chapter Seven. Reduction to absurdity -- Chapter Eight. Innocence in Henry James -- Chapter Nine. Mark Twain and Richard Jefferies -- Chapter Ten. Escape -- Chapter Eleven. The end of the Victorian child -- Chapter Twelve. Joyce : Virginia Woolf : D.H. Lawrence -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subjects: James, Henry 1843-1916 Characters Children. Blake, William Poetry Criticism. Geschichte 1800-1957.
Children in literature.
English literature History and criticism. Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique. Children in literature. English literature.
Literatur. Kind. Englisch
Children Special subjects English literature Criticism.
Children Special subjects American literature Criticism. English literature History and cricitism.
Children in literature.
English literature History and criticism. Individualism in literature. USA. Englisch. USA. Children in literature
English literature History and criticism. Children Literary depictions.
England Literature.
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