Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Men in wonderland :

Robson, Catherine, 1962-

Men in wonderland : the lost girlhood of the Victorian gentleman / Catherine Robson. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001. - xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Based on the author's disertation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, -- and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood -- CHAPTER Two -- The Ideal Girl in Industrial England -- CHAPTER THREE -- The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement -- CHAPTER FIVE -- A "New 'Cry of the Children' ": Legislating Innocence in -- the 1880s -- APPENDIX -- Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

0691004226 (alk. paper)

00048321


Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --Characters--Girls.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 --Characters--Girls.


English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Girls in literature.
English literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
Innocence (Psychology) in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Children in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Men in literature.

PR468.G5 / R63 2001

820.9/352054