Bibliograph

Ventures into childland, Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, U.C. Knoepflmacher

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Ventures into childland, Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, U.C. Knoepflmacher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ventures into childland

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

37721239

Responsibility statement

U.C. Knoepflmacher

Sub title

Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity

Table Of 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"

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