Introduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy 1. 'A detached peninsula': infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy 2. William Blake's Infant Joy. Robert Rix 3. The infant, the mother, and the breast in the paintings of Marguerite Gérard. Loren Lerner 4. Mother at the source: romanticism and infant education. Robert A. Davis 5. Coleridge, the ridiculous child, and the limits of Romanticism. Andrew McInnes