Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations

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Contents Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations, or, “It’s a Magical World, Hobbes, Ol’ Buddy” . . . Crash! 1 James Holt McGavran 1. ROMANTICISM CONTINUING AND CONTESTED Romanticism and the End of Childhood 23 Alan Richardson Reading Children and Homeopathic Romanticism: Paradigm Lost, Revisionary Gleam, or “Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose”? 44 Mitzi Myers 2. ROMANTIC IRONIES, POSTMODERN TEXTS Taking Games Seriously: Romantic Irony in Modern Fantasy for Children of All Ages 87 Dieter Petzold “Infant Sight”: Romanticism, Childhood, and Postmodern Poetry 105 Richard Flynn Wordsworth, Lost Boys, and Romantic Hom(e)ophobia 130 James Holt McGavran 3. ROMANTICISM AND THE COMMERCE OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of Kate Greenaway 155 Anne Lundin The Marketing of Romantic Childhood: Milne, Disney, and a Very Popular Stuffed Bear 188 Paula T. Connolly 4. ROMANTIC IDEAS IN CULTURAL CONFRONTATIONS The Art of Maternal Nurture in Mary Austin’s The Basket Woman 211 William J. Scheick Romanticism and Archetypes in Ruth Nichols’s Song of the Pearl 233 Teya Rosenberg Notes on Contributors 257 Index 259 viii Contents LITERATURE AND THE Child ...