Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity

Knoepflmacher, U. C. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0226448150 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xxi, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Buttonholing the Reader: A Preface of Sorts -- 1. Entering Childhood: The Double Perspectives of Generation and Sex -- 2. Resisting Growth: Ruskin's The King of the Golden River -- 3. Growing Up Ironic: Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring -- 4. Mixing Levity and the Grave: MacDonald's "The Light Princess" -- 5. Expanding Alice: from Underground to Wonderland -- 6. Shrinking Alice: from Wonderland to Looking-Glass Land -- 7. Erasing Borders: MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind -- 8. Sundering Women from Boys: Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy -- 9. Razing Male Preserves: From "Goblin Market" to Sing-Song -- 10. Avenging Alice: From Sing-Song to Speaking Likenesses -- 11. Repairing Female Authority: Ewing's "Amelia and the Dwarfs"