Last fall I returned to the classroom after a 5-year hiatus working for the National Endowment for the Humanities. I shared over the summer that I’m still deciding among a few different writing priorities. Nothing is quite ready even for this blog, but as I settle back into a teaching role, I have of course
Excellent scholarship by Marah Gubar, Claudia Nelson, Victoria Ford Smith, M. O. Grenby, Alexandra Valint, and others has more than demonstrated the importance of children’s literature to nineteenth-century culture more broadly. My first book contributed to that conversation, arguing that Romantic-era children’s tales helped shape the reading habits of the Victorians. Last summer, I signed