The period under consideration is often overlooked and resistant to easy periodization

Explores how four authors of the period 'wrote back' to their parent generation, contesting the Romantic-era constructions of childhood, parenthood and education into which they were written by their author-fathers

First study to read Hartley and Sarah Coleridge together

Autorentext

Beatrice Turner is Research Facilitator in the Department of English and Creative Writing at University of Roehampton, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Family, the Child, and the Memorial.- 3. Hartley Coleridge's 'little art of numbers': writing the child.- 4. Sara Coleridge and the 'mother's part': embodying the child.- 5. Mary Shelley's 'beloved acts': performing family feelings.- 6. William Godwin Jr and the 'ties of blood': after the family of feeling.