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This chapter begins by considering the ways in which the Romantic child is gendered as male, before showing how Sara is written out of this discourse and into a feminised landscape. Editing STC’s Biographia Literaria and Essays on His Own Times become a way to re-embody her absent father, but also to turn the transcendent Romantic child into an immanent and knowing figure who does not demand maternal suffering as the price of eternal childhood.
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Turner, B. (2017). Sara Coleridge and the ‘Mother’s Part’: Embodying the Child. In: Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64970-2_4
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