Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 93)

How And Why Childhood Became So Important To Such A Wide Range Of Romantic Writers Has Long Been One Of The Central Questions Of Literary Historical Studies. Ann Wierda Rowland Discovers New Answers To This Question In The Rise Of A Vernacular Literary Tradition. In The Romantic Period The Child Came Fully Into Its Own As The Object Of Increasing Social Concern And Cultural Investment; At The Same Time, Modern Literary Culture Consolidated Itself Along Vernacular, National Lines. Romanticism And Childhood Is The First Study To Examine The Intersections Of These Historical Developments And The First Study To Demonstrate That A Rhetoric Of Infancy And Childhood - The Metaphors, Images, Figures And Phrases Repeatedly Used To Represent And Conceptualize Childhood - Enabled Romantic Writers To Construct A National Literary History And Culture Capable Of Embracing A Wider Range Of Literary Forms.--publisher. Introduction: The Infantilization Of British Literary Culture -- Part I. History Of An Analogy: 'for The Savage Is To Ages What The Child Is To Years': -- 1. The Child Is Father Of The Man -- 2. Infancy, Poetry And The Origins Of Language -- 3. Becoming Human: Animal, Infant And Developmental Literary Culture In The Romantic Period -- Part Ii. Prattle And Trifles: -- 4. Retentive Ears And Prattling Mouths: Popular Antiquarianism And Childhood Memory -- 5. One Child's Trifle Is Another Man's Relic: Popular Antiquarianism And Childhood -- 6. The Layers And Forms Of The Child's Mind: Scott, Wordsworth And Antiquarianism Ann Wierda Rowland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 285-297)and Index. 01.0_pp_i_i_Romanticism_and_Childhood.pdf Romanticism and Childhood Romanticism and Childhood The Infantilization of British Literary Culture 02.0_pp_ii_ii_Series_page.pdf Romanticism and Childhood Romanticism and Childhood The Infantilization of British Literary Culture 03.0_pp_iii_iii_Romanticism_and_Childhood.pdf Romanticism and Childhood Romanticism and Childhood The Infantilization of British Literary Culture 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page.pdf Romanticism and Childhood Romanticism and Childhood The Infantilization of British Literary Culture 05.0_pp_v_v_Contents.pdf Contents 06.0_pp_vi_viii_Acknowledgments.pdf Acknowledgments 07.0_pp_1_22_Introduction_The_infantilization_of_British_literary_culture.pdf Chapter 0: Introduction: The infantilization of British literary culture The discovery of childhood History of an analogy: ``for the savage is to ages what the child is to years ́ ́ Prattle and trifles 08.0_pp_23_158_History_of_an_analogy.pdf &e_x201C;for the savage is to ages what the child is to years&e_x201D; 08.1_pp_25_66_The_child_is_father_of_the_man.pdf Chapter 1: The child is father of the man We are the ancients; they are the infants Tracing origins in Enlightenment inquiry New historical methods Fergusons colony of children History as reiteration; history as recapitulation No longer needing history in the Scottish Enlightenment 08.2_pp_67_108_Infancy_poetry_and_the_origins_of_language.pdf Chapter 2: Infancy, poetry and the origins of language First in the woods and wild, and afterwards in the nursery Ideas of infancy Infancy and the history of language Natural language and mute man Infant cries Sound, noise, gesture Music Every New Object Finds them Unprepared At First Only Poetry was Spoken Oldest writers, youngest talkers: Homers childhood 08.3_pp_109_158_Becoming_human.pdf Chapter 3: Becoming human Animal, infant and developmental literary culture in’the Romantic period ``Born dumb, ́ ́ but That strange thing, an infants dream Talking to Animals Becoming Human Reading and Recapitulation Returns and Revivals Rhetorical expressiveness: from print culture to media theory 09.0_pp_159_261_Prattle_and_trifles.pdf 09.1_pp_161_193_Retentive_ears_and_prattling_mouths.pdf Chapter 4: Retentive ears and prattling mouths Popular antiquarianism and childhood memory Antiquarian nostalgia: ``remembered from childhood ́ ́ Gathered from the mouths of nurses, Wet and Dry ``The village-matron suspends the infant-audience with her tales ́ ́ Prattle: the noise of the nursery Rote memory and the retentive mind The case of Anna Gordon Brown 09.2_pp_194_223_One_childs_trifle_is_another_mans_relic (1).pdf Chapter 5: One childs trifle is another mans relic Popular’antiquarianism and childhood formalism Romantic antiquarianism and popular folklore From trifle to relic The old age of childish verse Notes and occasional dissertations Men at work, children at play Childrens darker doings 09.2_pp_194_223_One_childs_trifle_is_another_mans_relic.pdf Chapter 5: One childs trifle is another mans relic Popular’antiquarianism and childhood formalism Romantic antiquarianism and popular folklore From trifle to relic The old age of childish verse Notes and occasional dissertations Men at work, children at play Childrens darker doings 09.3_pp_224_261_The_layers_and_forms_of_the_childs_mind.pdf Chapter 6: The layers and forms of the childs mind Scott,’Wordsworth and antiquarianism Harry Bertrams homecoming Lyrical (about) Ballads The independent life of forms Wordsworths Poetics of the Trifle 10.0_pp_262_284_Notes.pdf Notes Introduction Introduction 1 1The Child is Father of the Man1.Wordsworth, Poems in Two Volumes, 206. The line is the seventh line of the nine-line poem, ``My Heart Leaps Up. ́ ́ After 1815, Wordsworth used the last three lines of this poem as an epigraph for his ``Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. ́ ́2.See Higonnet, Pictures of Innocence; Mintz, Hucks Raft; Neumeister, The Changing Face of Childhood; Steward, The New Child.3.Plotz, Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood, 13.4.Steedman, Strange Dislocations.5.Plotz, Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood, 24.6.Siskin, Historicity of Romantic Discourse, 18.7.Chandler, England in 1819, xiv.8.Davis, Acts of Union; Duncan, Modern Romance and Scotts Shadow; Ferris, Achievement of Liter... The Child is Father of the Man The Child is Father of the Man 2 2Infancy, poetry and the origins of language1.Shelley, Shelleys Poetry and Prose, 511 and 535.2.Ibid., 535.3.Ibid., 511.4.Ibid., 511. It is a common remark within Enlightenment discussions of the origin of language that humans seem physically designed to produce a range of complex sounds. In Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Robert Chambers also uses the image of the Aeolian harp to represent mans physical propensity for language. He notes the ``peculiar organization of the larynx, trachea, and mouth ́ ́ and insists that ``such an arrangement of mutually adapted things was as likely to produce sounds as an Eolian harp placed in a draught is to produce tones. ́ ́ See Chambers, Vestiges, 312.5.Shelley, Shelleys Poetry and Prose, 511.6... Infancy, poetry and the origins of language Infancy, poetry and the origins of language 3 3Becoming Human1.Herder, Philosophical Writings, 65.2.For an account of the growing tendency among eighteenth-century intellectuals to credit animals with a language of movement, sound and gesture see Thomas, Man and the Natural World, 127-128.3.Ibid., 32 and 135.4.Herder, Philosophical Writings, 77.5.Monboddo, Origin and Progress of Language, Vol. I, 146.6.Ibid., Vol. I, 183.7.As Thomas points out, it is because of such passages that Monboddo is often pointed to as an early theorist of the ideas of evolution. See Thomas, Man and the Natural World, 133.8.For a discussion of literature as defining the human species, see McLane, Romanticism and the Human Sciences, 10-42.9.Herder, Philosophical Writings, 81.10.Reid, Inquiry Into the Human Min... Becoming Human Becoming Human 4 4Retentive ears and prattling mouths1.Opie and Opie, Lore and Language, 1.2.Ibid., 1-2.3.Ibid., 87 and 94.4.Ibid., 95.5.Ibid., 95.6.Rousseau, Emile, 106.7.Opie and Opie, Lore and Language, 95.8.Barbauld, Selected Poetry and Prose, 377.9.Sutton-Smith, Childrens Folklore, 4.10.Opie and Opie, Lore and Language, 1.11.Ibid., 1.12.Ibid., 213.13.Rousseau, Emile, 33.14.Kittler, Discourse Networks, 25-69; Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism, 194-200.15.Kittler, Discourse Networks, 24.16.Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism, 3-34; Manning, ``Antiquarianism, Balladry, and the Rehabilitation of Romance ́ ́; McLane, Balladeering.17.Scott, Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 4; Aytoun, The Ballads of Scotland, xvii; Jamieson, Popular Ballads and Songs, i-ii.18.Chambers, Popu... Retentive ears and prattling mouths Retentive ears and prattling mouths 5 5One Childs Trifle is another Mans Relic1.Scott, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 4.2.Ibid., 4.3.Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. II, 342.4.For a discussion of the prominence of violent subject matter in Gaelic lullabies see Hillers, ``Dialogue or Monologue? ́ ́, 34.5.See McDonagh, Child Murder and British Culture, 9.6.Motherwell, Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, iv; Buchan, Ancient Ballads and Songs, iii.7.Peter Buchan, Ancient Ballads and Songs, iii. Susan Stewart identifies the contrast between the revivals emphasis on the ballads martial qualities and the thematics of the ballads themselves. See Stewart, Crimes of Writing, 114-115.8.Nick Groom discusses the problem posed by the ballads rude, scandalous and violent contents... One Childs Trifle is another Mans Relic One Childs Trifle is another Mans Relic 6 6The Layers and forms of the childs Mind1.John Locke, Some Thoughts, 83.2.Scott, Guy Mannering, 40.3.Ibid., 40.4.Ibid., 146.5.Ibid., 123.6.Ibid., 114.7.Ibid., 241-242.8.Ibid., 243.9.Ibid., 244.10.Ibid., 244.11.Ibid., 246.12.Ibid., 247.13.Ibid., 23-24.14.Ibid., 248.15.Ibid., 247.16.Ibid., 248.17.Ibid., 320.18.Ibid., 337 and 339.19.Ibid., 307 and 308.20.William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, 738-739.21.Ibid., 742, 746-747.22.Ibid., 122, 377.23.Robert Mayo, ``Contemporaneity, ́ ́ 491.24.Jacobus, Tradition and Experiment, 184.25.Swann, ```Marthas Name, ́ ́ ́ 61.26.For an excellent discussion of how the popular ballad troubles elite literary forms in the eighteenth century, see Newman, Ballad Collection.27.Jacobus, Tradition and Experiment, 209; Mayo,... The Layers and forms of the childs Mind The Layers and forms of the childs Mind Primary sources Secondary sources 11.0_pp_285_297_Bibliography.pdf Bibliography 12.0_pp_298_305_Index.pdf Index