The Land of Lost Content: Children and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

by Rosemary Lloyd

The Land of Lost Content explores the ways in which nineteenth-century French writers represented childhood and children in their work. Ranging widely through poetry, fiction, autobiographies, and letters, Rosemary Lloyd shows how writers as diverse as Baudelaire and Hector Malot, George Sand and Pierre Loti, Flaubert and Judith Gautier gradually responded to changing concepts of the self. After a study of central problems and recurrent motifs encountered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019815173X
• ISBN13: 9780198151739
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"