Romanticism and Parenting: Instruction, Image and IdeologyPevná vazba
If the child is the father of the man, as William Wordsworth so famously declared, then what of the father that child grows to become? How does a daughter born of her mother's death, as in the case of…
Specifikacia Romanticism and Parenting: Instruction, Image and IdeologyPevná vazba
If the child is the father of the man, as William Wordsworth so famously declared, then what of the father that child grows to become? How does a daughter born of her mother's death, as in the case of Mary Shelley, navigate the politics of production and reproduction within a loaded language of mythological allusion between generational authorships? How do the visual arts perpetuate or challenge cultural agendas, such as portraying patriarchal anxieties about the effeminization of homeland by the foreign other, or attempting, iconically, to save the soul of a nation? How do parents both encode and decode our world? With the rise of the cult of the child in the later 18th and 19th centuries, Romantic writers of Britain and Europe, and eventually of North America, were perfectly positioned to explore, by extension, what it meant to parent, whether it be in within the domestic or the