The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism

This book refigures the significance of childhood in 19^th-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. It draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink