Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - James Holt McGavran, Jr. , and Jennifer Smith Daniel
Missing But Presumed Alive: Lost Children of Lost Parents in Two Major Romantic Poems, “Michael” and “Christabel” - James Holt McGavran, Jr.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Childish Resentment: The Angry Girl, the Wrongs and the Rights of Woman - Malini Roy
That This Here Box Be in the Natur of a Trap: Maria Edgeworth’s Pedagogical Gardens, Ireland, and the Education of the Poor - Andrew J. Smyth
Financial Investments vs. Moral Principles: Charlotte Smith’s Children’s Books and Slavery - Elizabeth A. Dolan
The Innocent Child in the House of History: Storytelling and the Sensibility of Loss in Molesworth’s The Tapestry Room - Elizabeth Gargano
Oversleeping Oneself: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wake-Up Call in Wives and Daughters - Dorothy H. McGavran
The Perils of Reading: Children’s Missionary Magazines and the Making of Victorian Imperialist Subjectivity - Mary Ellis Gibson
The End Was Not Ignoble? Bird-Nesting between Cruelty, Manliness, and Science Education in British Children’s Periodicals, 1850–1900 - Jochen Petzold
My Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music - Richard Flynn
Rousseau Redux: Romantic Re-Visions of Nature and Freedom in Recent Children’s Literature about Homeschooling - Claudia Mills
Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting - Jan Susina
The Sustaining Paradox: Romanticism and Alan Moore’s Promethea Novels - Roderick McGillis
Notes on Contributors
Index