The child writer from Austen to Woolf
Title:
The child writer from Austen to Woolf
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
xv, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780521812931
Series Title:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 47
General Note:
"This collection on childhood writings is intended to recognize the child's own authentic voice and authority, and to explore a category of literature that has been largely neglected"--Introd.
Abstract:
"In this highly original collection leading scholars address the largely overlooked genre of childhood writings by major authors, and explore the genesis of genius. The volume includes an invaluable and thorough annotated bibliography of juvenilia, and will stimulate many new directions for research on this lively and fascinating topic."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster -- 2. Nineteenth-century juvenilia : a survey / Christine Alexander -- 3. Play and apprenticeship : the culture of family magazines / Christine Alexander -- 4. What Daisy knew : the epistemology of the child writer / Juliet McMaster -- 5. Defining and representing literary juvenilia / Christine Alexander -- 6. Jane Austen, that disconcerting 'child' / Margaret Anne Doody -- 7. Endless imitation : Austen's and Byron's juvenilia / Rachel M. Brownstein -- 8. Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 'at four I first mounted Pegasus' / Beverly Taylor -- 9. Autobiography and juvenilia : the fractured self in Charlotte Bronte's early manuscripts / Christine Alexander -- 10. The child is parent to the author : Branwell Bronte / Victor A. Neufeldt -- 11. Choosing a model : George Eliot's 'prentice hand / Juliet McMaster -- 12. Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskin's juvenilia / David C. Hanson -- 13. Louisa May Alcott's juvenilia / Daniel Shealy -- 14. Dr. Arnold's granddaughter : Mary Augusta Ward / Gillian E. Boughton -- 15. New woman, 'new boots' : Amy Levy as child journalist / Naomi Hetherington -- 16. An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century juvenilia / Lesley Peterson and Leslie Robertson.