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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b8659376.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "1. The Child in Restoration Comedy -- 2. Augustan Comedy and the Validation of Issue -- 3. Discourses of Concern -- 4. Education -- 5. Fathers -- 6. Mothers -- 7. Affection: Sentiment versus Comedy -- 8. The Child as Subject and Self -- 9. Issue and its Connotations.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-246) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "252 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Children, parents, and the rise of the novel.".
• catalog identifier "0874135583 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Children, parents, and the rise of the novel.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press,".
• catalog relation "Children, parents, and the rise of the novel.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "823/.809 20".
• catalog subject "Children in literature.".
• catalog subject "Domestic fiction, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English fiction 18th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Families in literature.".
• catalog subject "Family in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "PR858.C5 N45 1995".
• catalog subject "Parent and child in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Child in Restoration Comedy -- 2. Augustan Comedy and the Validation of Issue -- 3. Discourses of Concern -- 4. Education -- 5. Fathers -- 6. Mothers -- 7. Affection: Sentiment versus Comedy -- 8. The Child as Subject and Self -- 9. Issue and its Connotations.".
• catalog title "Children, parents, and the rise of the novel / T.G.A. Nelson.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".