Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Ventures into childland :

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity / U.C. Knoepflmacher. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. - xxi, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Entering Childhood: The Double Perspectives of Generation and Sex 2. Resisting Growth: Ruskin's The King of the Golden River 3. Growing Up Ironic: Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring 4. Mixing Levity and the Grave: MacDonald's "The Light Princess" 5. Expanding Alice: from Underground to Wonderland 6. Shrinking Alice: from Wonderland to Looking-Glass Land 7. Erasing Borders: MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind 8. Sundering Women from Boys: Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy 9. Razing Male Preserves: From "Goblin Market" to Sing-Song 10. Avenging Alice: From Sing-Song to Speaking Likenesses 11. Repairing Female Authority: Ewing's "Amelia and the Dwarfs"

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Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
Girls--Books and reading--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Authorship--Sex differences--History--19th century.
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Fantasy literature, English--History and criticism.
Children's literature, English--Illustrations.
Children's literature--Psychological aspects.
Femininity in literature.
Sex role in literature.


Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

PR990. / K58 1998

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