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Holiday House: grist to The Mill on the Floss, or childhood as text.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20020101
Author:Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

In his 1814 review of Wordsworth's `The Excursion', Charles Lamb wrote: `[Wordsworth's] verses shall be censured as infantile by critics who confound poetry "having children for its subject" with poetry that is "childish"', (1) and almost two hundred years later attitudes of this kind, overt or implicit, can still widely be found both in literary criticism in general and in children's literature criticism. This volume of the Yearbook of English Studies aims to challenge that view of childhood as either an isolated, special topic within literary studies, of little relevance to ...

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