The child writer from Austen to Woolf
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2005
Bibliographies
xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521812931, 0521812933
57236217
Introduction / Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster
Nineteenth-century juvenilia: a survey / Christine Alexander
Play and apprenticeship: the culture of family magazines / Christine Alexander
What Daisy knew: the epistemology of the child writer / Juliet McMaster
Defining and representing literary juvenilia / Christine Alexander
Jane Austen, that disconcerting 'child' / Margaret Anne Doody
Endless imitation: Austen's and Byron's juvenilia / Rachel M. Brownstein
Childhood writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 'At four I first mounted Pagasus' / Beverly Taylor
Autobiography and juvenilia: the fractured self in Charlotte Brontë's early manuscripts / Christine Alexander
The child is parent to the author: Branwell Brontë / Victor A. Neufeldt
Choosing a model: George Eliot's 'prentice hand / Juliet McMaster
Precocity and the economy of the evangelical self in John Ruskin's juvenilia / David C. Hanson
Louisa May Alcott's juvenilia / Daniel Shealy
Dr Arnold's granddaughter: Mary Augusta Ward / Gillian E. Boughton
New woman, 'new boots': Amy Levy as a child journalist / Naomi Hetherington
An annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century juvenilia / Lesley Peterson, Leslie Robertson
"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"--Introduction