| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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[CRKN ebooks] |
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[MyiLibrary] |
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[CRKN ebooks]
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[MyiLibrary]
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| Contents |
Our field: the rise of the child narrator -- Collaborating with the enemy: Treasure Island -- Reciprocal aggression: unromantic agency in the art of Lewis Carroll -- Partners in crime: E. Nesbit and the art of thieving -- The cult of the child and the controversy over child actors -- Burnett, Barrie, and the emergence of children's theatre |
| Summary |
"In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childhood studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--Were actually deeply ambivalent. Writers such as Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and J.M. Barrie often resisted the growing cultural pressure to erect a strict barrier between child and adult, innocence and experience. Instead of urging young people to mold themselves to match a static ideal of artless simplicity, they frequently conceived of children as precociously literate, highly socialized beings who--though indisputably shaped by the strictures of civilized life--could nevertheless cope with such influences in creative ways"--Abstract |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Children in literature.
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Adolescence in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Adolescence in literature
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Children in literature
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Children's literature, English
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English literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press.
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| LC no. |
2008024308 |
| ISBN |
9780195336252 |
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0195336259 |
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9780199714476 |
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0199714479 |
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1281987069 |
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9781281987068 |
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9786611987060 |
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6611987061 |
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