Ventures into Childland
Ventures into Childland
Summary
Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves.
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Ventures into Childland by U C Knoepflmacher
Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," U. C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate, probing deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales." Ventures into Childland will delight and instruct all readers of children's classics, and will be essential reading for students of Victorian culture and gender studies. "Ventures into Childland is acute, well written and stimulating. It also has a political purpose, to insist on the importance of protecting and nurturing children, imaginatively and physically."—Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement "A provocative and interesting book about Victorian culture."—Library JournalU. C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University's Paton Foundation Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Modern Literature, is author of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Study and Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity and coeditor of The Endurance of Frankenstein. He has recently published an illustrated children's book. Logan D. Browning is a lecturer in the Department of English at Rice University and editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226448169 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226448169 |
| Title | Ventures into Childland |
| Author | U C Knoepflmacher |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2000-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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