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The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary

In addition to her essay (pp. 165-81), Gavin’s contribution to the research published in this volume collection is demonstrable in that she envisaged the project and sought out leading scholars of childhood in periods from 1200 to 2010 to write essays that would challenge existing views of literary childhood in order to create the first book-length study of the child across eight centuries of British literary history. As her Introduction (pp. 1-18) outlines, the volume is an intervention in scholarship that both overturns pre-existing assumptions about literary childhood’s role and construction and helps rectify the critical neglect of childhood, particularly in early centuries.