Children, Parents, and the Rise of the NovelUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 252 sivua "In Children, Parents, and the Rise of the Novel, T. G. A. Nelson challenges the views of literary critics who contend that the child held little importance as a theme of imaginative literature in the first half of the eighteenth century. Nelson's work follows thirty years of intense discussion of children and childhood by social historians, most of whom see the first half of the eighteenth century as a time of momentous change." "In Restoration comedy, for example, the child is a signifier of unwanted burdens that may fall on the parents: wit and cunning are expended in transferring responsibility for children to convenient dupes. However, in the early novel, in periodical literature, and in other discourses of concern, the comic, dismissive response toward children is increasingly marginalized and subjected to negative criticism, especially when attributed to wealthy or socially distinguished characters. In traditional comedy, rejection of children characterized the carefree rake, who, though satirized at times, was generally projected as an embodiment of the life-force. In the new writing, rejection of children is firmly associated with frigidity, especially among the rich, not with life-giving energy." "Recent writers on the eighteenth-century novel have overstressed elements of covert hostility toward wives and children. This seems partly due to their own ideological rejection of the family and partly to their misunderstanding of the nature of fictional and dramatic narrative. Such narrative is unsuited to figurations of domestic peace and harmony; often it is in situations of domestic discord that the child figure becomes most active and significant in the world of the novel, but this does not mean that the novelists continued to present the child or the family negatively, as earlier dramatists had done. Overall, the child in eighteenth-century fiction is not merely more prominent than has been generally recognized, but is identifiable as a signifier of hope, vigor, spontaneity, and new life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... bastard child . As a result , pregnant women sometimes died after being driven from place to place in bad weather when on the point of giving birth . When a bastard was born to a parishioner , everything possible was done to pin ...
... bastard child . As a result , pregnant women sometimes died after being driven from place to place in bad weather when on the point of giving birth . When a bastard was born to a parishioner , everything possible was done to pin ...
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... bastard - getter and bastard - bearer to consent together to murder their chil- dren " ( 1928 , 187 ) . Addison devotes an angry essay to the prob- lem of the orphan in the Spectator ( 23 October 1711 ) : here the figures who appear in ...
... bastard - getter and bastard - bearer to consent together to murder their chil- dren " ( 1928 , 187 ) . Addison devotes an angry essay to the prob- lem of the orphan in the Spectator ( 23 October 1711 ) : here the figures who appear in ...
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... bastard child to a useful profession is anticipated in All Mistaken ( 1.12 ) , where Philidor thinks of making one of his illegitimate children a parson so that he can christen his siblings . But behind Addison's essay lie darker hints ...
... bastard child to a useful profession is anticipated in All Mistaken ( 1.12 ) , where Philidor thinks of making one of his illegitimate children a parson so that he can christen his siblings . But behind Addison's essay lie darker hints ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Child in Restoration Comedy | 36 |
Augustan Comedy and the Validation of Issue | 51 |
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