Artful dodgers : reconceiving the golden age of children's literature /

"In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childhood studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were mos...

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Main Author: Gubar, Marah, 1973-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Our field: the rise of the child narrator
  • Collaborating with the enemy: Treasure Island
  • Reciprocal aggression: unromantic agency in the art of Lewis Carroll
  • Partners in crime: E. Nesbit and the art of thieving
  • The cult of the child and the controversy over child actors
  • Burnett, Barrie, and the emergence of children's theatre.