Children’s Literature in the Eighteenth Century: Re-defining the Child

Children’s Literature in the Eighteenth Century: Re-defining the Child

Shahd Alshammari

Arab Open University, Kuwait Branch, Kuwait

Abstract

This paper attempts to outline the basic ideologies of childhood in the Romantic period and examines literary texts written for children by often neglected women authors Anna Letitia Barbauld and Sarah Trimmer.

Keywords: Romanticism, Romanticism thought, Children’s literature, education, child, eighteenth-century