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Title:
Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity
Author:
Knoepflmacher, U. C.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
xxi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Entering childhood : the double perspectives of generation and sex -- Resisting growth : Ruskin's The king of the golden river -- Growing up ironic : Thackeray's The rose and the ring -- Mixing levity and the grave : MacDonald's "The light princess" -- Expanding Alice : from Underground to Wonderland -- Shrinking Alice : from Wonderland to Looking-glass land -- Erasing borders : MacDonald's At the back of the north wind -- Sundering women from boys : Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy -- Razing male preserves : from "Goblin market" to Sing-Song -- Avenging Alice : from Sing-Song to Speaking likenesses -- Repairing female authority : Ewing's "Amelia and the dwarfs".
ISBN:
9780226448152
Format :
Book