ISBN:
9780199714476
,
9781281987068
,
9786611987060
,
9780199887446
,
9780199868490
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 264 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gubar, Marah, 1973- Artful dodgers
DDC:
820.9/928209034
Keywords:
1800-1899
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Children's literature, English History and criticism
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English literature History and criticism 19th century
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Children in literature
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Adolescence in literature
;
Littérature de jeunesse anglaise - Histoire et critique
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Littérature anglaise - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique
;
Adolescence dans la littérature
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LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Adolescence in literature
;
Children in literature
;
Children's literature, English
;
English literature
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
"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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index
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