Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity / U.C. Knoepflmacher.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. Description: xxi, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226448169Subject(s): Children's literature, English -- History and criticism | Girls -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century | Fairy tales -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | 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, 1837-1901DDC classification: 820.9/9282/09034 LOC classification: PR990. | K58 1998Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
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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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"