The Child Writer from Austen to WoolfChristine Alexander, Juliet McMaster Cambridge University Press, 2005 M06 16 - 312 pages 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 book includes essays on the first writings of Jane Austen, Byron, Elizabeth Barrett, Charlotte and Branwell Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf. All began writing for pleasure as children, and later developed their professional ambitions. In bursts of creative energy, these young authors, as well as those like Daisy Ashford, who wrote only as a child, produced prose, verse, imitation and parody, wild romance and down-to-earth daily records. Their juvenile writings are fascinating both in themselves, and for the promise of greater works to come. The volume includes an invaluable and thorough annotated bibliography of juvenilia, and will stimulate many directions for research in this lively and fascinating topic. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Nineteenthcentury juvenilia a survey | 11 |
Play and apprenticeship the culture of family magazines | 31 |
What Daisy knew the epistemology of the child writer | 51 |
Defining and representing literary juvenilia | 70 |
Jane Austen that disconcerting child | 101 |
Endless imitation Austens and Byrons juvenilia | 122 |
Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning At four I first mounted Pegasus | 138 |
The child is parent to the author Branwell Bronte | 173 |
Choosing a model George Eliots prentice hand | 188 |
Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskins juvenilia | 200 |
Louisa May Alcotts juvenilia | 222 |
Dr Arnolds granddaughter Mary Augusta Ward | 237 |
New Woman New Boots Amy Levy as child journalist | 254 |
An annotated bibliography of nineteenthcentury juvenilia | 269 |
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Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord ... Anna Barton Limited preview - 2008 |