Motherhood, Children and Loss in the Works of Sara Coleridge and Mary Shelley, 1820-44

这个项目将开辟新的天地，通过探索两位女性迄今为止相对较少探索的一组作品中的母性和丧失主题，包括柯勒律治的《好孩子的诗句》(1834)和《关于紧张》(约1834)，以及雪莱的《普罗瑟平》(1820)、《莫里斯》(1820)和《德国和意大利的漫步》(1844)。通过这样做，该项目将有助于理解学者们认为对更全面和细致入微地理解浪漫主义时期文化至关重要的三个领域：女性写作；儿童文学和关于儿童的文学；以及‘晚期浪漫主义’(即19世纪20年代至19世纪40年代的英国文学文化)。该项目的主要目的是：在浪漫主义儿童观念的背景下，对莎拉·柯勒律治和玛丽·雪莱的儿童写作进行新的分析；调查母亲的经历和母亲的丧失如何影响柯勒律治和雪莱的作品；分析浪漫主义时期迅速涌现的儿童文学体裁，考虑柯勒律治和雪莱作为儿童女作家的看法如何塑造他们的批判性声誉

This project will break new ground by exploring themes of motherhood and loss in a group of hitherto relatively unexplored writings by both women, including: Coleridge's 'Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children'(1834), and 'On Nervousness' (c. 1834), and Shelley's 'Proserpine' (1820), 'Maurice' (1820), and 'Rambles in Germany and Italy' (1844). By so doing the project will contribute to understanding of three areas identified by scholars as crucial to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of Romantic period culture: women's writing; literature for and about children; and 'late Romanticism' (i.e., British literary culture of the 1820s-1840s). The project's main aims are:To develop a new analysis of Sara Coleridge's and Mary Shelley's writing for/about children in the context of Romantic ideas of childhoodTo investigate how the experience of motherhood and maternal loss can be shown to have inflected Coleridge's and Shelley's worksTo analyse the rapidly emergent genre of children's literature in the Romantic period, considering how Coleridge's and Shelley's critical reputations have been shaped by their perception as women writers for children