Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period.  Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and discipl