Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609381009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 237 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emile. S. His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood—the idea that children have a special knowledge of nature, politics, and spirituality to teach their elders as well as the other way around. Eliot, Judy Blume, Jerome McGann, and Jacqueline Rose. Displaying careful scho
The range of topics he covers in Time of Beauty, Time of Fear is both broad and deep. This work is a welcome and substantive contribution to the study of children’s literature and to the study of Romanticism and its influences.”—Roberta Seelinger Trites, author, Disturbing the Universe and Waking Sleeping Beauty. “James McGavran’s work on Romanticism and its effects on children’s literature has been among the most substantial on the subject
"Fly Droppings in the Pepper Shaker?" according to Deke Solomon. Reading the Introduction, I already see that romanticism in kiddie lit may not be a good thing in the eyes of editor McGavran.For the rest of it: The history of Western civilization being what it is, attempts to identify, describe and catalog occurrences of romanticism in Western literature resemble attempts to identify, describe and catalog bits of fly poo in our great, We