Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

by U.C. Knoepflmacher

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Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," U. C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate, probing deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226448169

ISBN13:9780226448169

Release Date:June 2000

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Books & Reading Criticism & Theory English Literature Gender Studies History & Criticism History of Books Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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