Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and Retrospection 1820 - 1850
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 745912
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-64969-6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This c.80,000-word contribution to Romantic-period literary scholarship represents six years’ work. Drawing together primary archival research, close reading methodologies, and the literary insights afforded by psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralism, the five chapters explore how the children of two central Romantic-period authors, William Godwin and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wrote back to and resisted their fathers’ culturally-formative constructions of childhood. Uncovering and articulating this previously unacknowledged ‘anxiety of inheritance’, and the way it operated within wider cultural discourses about the relationship between childhood and art, required wide-ranging and time-intensive research and writing.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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