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- Title
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Politics of Childhood.
- Authors
TAYLOR, BEVERLY
- Abstract
The essay discusses the understanding of childhood of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) as revealed in her letters about raising her son, Robert Weidman Barrett Browning (Pen). The essay shows that EBB was not merely eccentric when she refused to have Pen study reading and Latin at an early age, but was following the ideas of philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau as espoused in his novel "Émile." In the author's view, EBB was revealing a modern, cosmopolitan attitude towards childhood.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; CHILD rearing; BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; EMILE: Or, On Education (Book : Rousseau); BROWNING, Robert Weidman Barrett; MOTHER-child relationship; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 4, p405
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0033