"The Chimney Sweeper"

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This paper discusses how William Blake's poem "The Chimney Sweeper" represents a particularly interesting example of the representation of childhood in that its representation exists in a dynamic tension between two distinct models: the Romantic child and the Factory child. It argues that Blake's dual representation reflects a critical moment in the shaping of the social construction of childhood in Western European culture in which the idea of children as workers contributing to economic growth was under attack from reformers.

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