In England at the turn of the 19th century, the advent of Romanticism coincided with major changes in ideas about children and childhood, eventually resulting i

These essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian childre

Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodical