Ventures into Childland
Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity
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Word Count
116,000 words, Guess
Page Count
464 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100226448169
- ISBN-139780226448169
- Goodreads622069
- LibraryThing610747
- OCLC Control Number37721239
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226448169
- Open LibraryOL9792077M
Classifications
- LCCPR990.K58 1998
- DDC820.9/9282/09034
- LCCPR990 .K58 1998
Description
Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," Knoepflmacher probes deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and between the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales."
First Sentence
Let me begin this book with a personal anecdote.
Excerpt
Let me begin this book with a personal anecdote.
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- Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity
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