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Perceptions of Childhood in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle.
This book reads Victorian fin de siècle literature through the medium of perceptions of childhood. It examines the connection between 'monstrous' and idealistic symbolic representations of childhood represented by key cultural discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Specifically, anxi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book reads Victorian fin de siècle literature through the medium of perceptions of childhood. It examines the connection between 'monstrous' and idealistic symbolic representations of childhood represented by key cultural discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Specifically, anxieties about change are linked closely to anxieties about childhood, procreation, and maturation in a range of Children's and Adults' texts from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book demonstrates the ways in which t ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (171 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443827706 1443827703 9781443826884 144382688X 1283142236 9781283142236 9786613142238 6613142239 |