Open AccessMarjory Fleming and Child Authors: The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things
Author(s) -
Laurie Langbauer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
romanticism and victorianism on the net
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-1441
DOI - 10.7202/1001092ar
Subject(s) - romance , period (music) , test (biology) , history , psychoanalysis , psychology , art history , art , aesthetics , biology , paleontology
Marjory Fleming was a child diarist who wrote during the Romantic period; her diary was published during the Victorian era. Her text and its reception offer a test case for how “thing theory,” as synthesized by Bill Brown, might provide a theoretical approach that productively reconsiders the categories of “the child” and the child author