Beatrix Potter

Description

"In celebration of Peter Rabbit's centennial birthday, Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code presents the first full-length study of Potter's entire canon, examining all twenty-six tales in a biographical and cultural context. Close reading demonstrates how plots and imagery in the stories parallel Potter's life and socio-political concerns. Drawing extensively on the author's coded journal and private correspondence, M. Daphne Kutzer argues that Potter's picture books for children contain disguised references to her personal life, political viewpoints, and business acumen. In its novel approach, Beatrix Potter, Writing in Code peers through the veil of nostalgia that often clouds critical responses to the tales, thereby revealing previously overlooked complexities and subtleties. Attention to Potter's career and private reflections illuminates not only the surface meanings of her books but also their artfully coded social, political, and biographical commentary. Regarded in this light, they tell us as much about Potter and her world as they do about mischievous rabbits and mice."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) was both Potter's favorite book and her most unusual.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code (Children's Literature and Culture, 27)Roultledge2002-12-01
• Beatrix PotterRoutledge2002-01-01
• Beatrix PotterTaylor & Francis Group2003-01-01
• Beatrix PotterRoutledge2013-01-01
• Beatrix PotterTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01
• Beatrix PotterTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01