Description |
xxi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Alice to the lighthouse : children's books and radical experiments in art / Juliet Dusinberre. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Part I: Children's Books, Childhood and Modernism -- Classifying the Child -- Childhood and Phenomenology -- Educating the Parent -- Children and Post-Impressionist Painting -- Child Sexuality -- The Child and Her Book -- Part II: The Voice of the Author -- Piety, Improvement and Protest -- The Burden of Instruction -- Author, Parent, Preacher -- Part III: Virginia Woolf and the Irreverant Generation -- Lewis Carroll -- Accomplices: Writer and Reader -- Egoistic Author -- Rebels -- Eminent Victorians -- Sacred Texts -- Part IV: Death -- Death-Bed Scenes -- Children and Death -- Mrs, Ramsay's Brackets -- Part V: The Medium of Art -- Language -- Form -- Part VI: Making Space for a Child -- "What is Reality?" -- Time-Travel and Territory -- Psychoanalysis and Conscience -- Narrative and Power -- Part VII: The Literary and the Literal -- Places -- Pioneers -- Design and Vision -- Solidity and Thin Paint -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Children's literature, English History and criticism, English literature 20th century History and criticism, Children's literature, American History and criticism, American literature 20th century History and criticism, Children Books and reading English-speaking countries, Children Books and reading History 20th century, Literature, Experimental History and criticism, Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Technique, Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Influence |
Notes |
First edition published 1987 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-335) and index |
Subject |
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Technique.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- History -- 20th century.
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Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Play in literature.
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LC no. |
98044053 |
ISBN |
031222057X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0333658507 (GB : pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0333759842 (GB : hardcover : alk. paper) |
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