The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction by Jacqueline Rose

The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction by Jacqueline Rose

Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

"Rose's searching arguments are complex and concentratedThis is the book children's literature has needed for some time. It combines scholarly examination of primary sources with historical commentary, the social history of childhood and critical theory derived from psychoanalysis. . . . It is a challenge to critics to examine the whole range of cultural practices attached to stories for children." * London Review of Books *
"Everyone interested in the way in which the balance of power between adult and child in our society is expressed in the books offered by the former to the latter should read Rose's study of Peter Pan." * Times Education Supplement *

Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, Jacqueline Rose The Final Resistance, The Question of Zion, and Albertine: A Novel are among her many works.

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ISBN 13	9780812214352
ISBN 10	0812214358
Title	The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction
Author	Jacqueline Rose
Series	New Cultural Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published	1992-12-29
Number of pages	208
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