Artful dodgers : reconceiving the golden age of children's literature /
"In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childhood studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were mos...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | [CRKN ebooks].
[MyiLibrary] |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childhood studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--Were actually deeply ambivalent. Writers such as Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and J.M. Barrie often resisted the growing cultural pressure to erect a strict barrier between child and adult, innocence and experience. Instead of urging young people to mold themselves to match a static ideal of artless simplicity, they frequently conceived of children as precociously literate, highly socialized beings who--though indisputably shaped by the strictures of civilized life--could nevertheless cope with such influences in creative ways"--Abstract. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780195336252 0195336259 9780199714476 0199714479 1281987069 9781281987068 9786611987060 6611987061 |