Bibliograph

Victorian children's literature, experiencing abjection, empathy, and the power of love, Ruth Y. Jenkins

Type

Label

Victorian children's literature, experiencing abjection, empathy, and the power of love, Ruth Y. Jenkins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victorian children's literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945232039

Responsibility statement

Ruth Y. Jenkins

Series statement

Critical approaches to children's literature

Sub title

experiencing abjection, empathy, and the power of love

Summary

"This book reveals how the period's transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children's literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.", --back cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction: emerging identities and the practice of possibility -- Imagining the abject in Kinsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: disrupting dominant values and cultural identity in children's literature -- Gender, abjection, and coming of age: games, dolls, and stories -- Constructing the self: connection and separation -- Giving voice to abjection: experience and empathy -- Engendering abjection's sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

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