Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture

1. Introduction
Galia Benziman

2. Concepts of Childhood and Adult Responsibility: Locke, Rousseau, More, and Edgeworth
Galia Benziman

3. Redeeming or Silencing the Child’s Voice: Blake and Wordsworth
Galia Benziman

4. Child Neglect as Social Vice: Trollope, Tonna, and Working-Class Subjectivity
Galia Benziman

5. The Split Image of the Neglected Child: Dickens
Galia Benziman

6. Aged Children and the Inevitability of Being Neglected: Hardy
Galia Benziman

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature