New Book: Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
I'm very proud of my latest edited collection with Kristine Moruzi, Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods, which has just been published in Palgrave's Literary Cultures and Childhoods series. It was intellectually reinvigorating to think about the construction of the child in adult texts alongside of the development of children's literature and periodicals. Moreover, it was rewarding to assemble some of our favourite scholars in the field to think about this topic, including those who were heavily influential on our doctoral work about Victorian children's literature, such as Claudia Nelson, and those who are reframing the field as early-career researchers. The volume includes chapters that consider the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Thomas Hardy alongside well-known fiction intended for young readers by George MacDonald, Christabel Coleridge, and Kate Greenaway. It examines how