Perceptions of Childhood in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sattaur, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Temas:
1800-1899
Children in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Children's literature, English > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature de jeunesse anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Society & social sciences.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children in literature
Children's literature, English
English literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: change and childhood
  • Childhood and evolution: Jekyll and Hyde and the monstrous child
  • Childhood and aestheticism: The Happy Prince and the idealised child
  • Childhood and religion: Lilith and the suffering child
  • Childhood and empire: The Jungle Books and the savage child
  • The uncanny child: The Turn of the Screw
  • Childhood and education: Cautionary Tales for Children and the criminal child
  • Conclusion: child and trickster: the end of eras.

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