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Judith Plotz is a Professor of English at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., where she teaches courses in Romanticism, children's literature, and 19th century civilization. She is the author ofIdeas of the Decline of Poetry (Harvard Dissertations in American and English Literature, Garland, 1987), and is completing a book on childhood and Romanticism.
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Plotz, J. The disappearance of childhood: Parent-child role reversals inAfter the First Death andA Solitary Blue . Child Lit Educ 19, 67–79 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01143443
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