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Acknowledgments I thank my colleague Mark West at the University of North Carolina– Charlotte for urging me to assemble this, my third anthology of essays on the connections between Romanticism and children’s literature. The first two books are Romanticism and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century England [1991; rpt. 2009] and Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations [1999]. Mark not only encouraged me in the current project; he put me in touch with several of the contributors to this volume and cheerfully offered his advice whenever I asked for it—and that was often. I remain grateful to another longtime colleague, Anita Moss, for starting me in this direction back in the 1980s. More thanks are due to my hardworking, perceptive research assistant, Jen Daniel, who energetically sought out sources that would help me with the book and drafted parts of the introduction; to her I owe the suggestion to use Away We Go as a contemporary vehicle for presenting romantic-influenced ideas about parenting and childhood. Finally, still more thanks go to Donna J. Gunter of the Atkins Library at UNC–Charlotte for quickly and expertly finding bibliography relevant to the “crisis”-concerns outlined in the introduction. ...

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