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23%OFFU. C. Knoepflmacher - Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity - 9780226448169 - V9780226448169
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Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

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Description for Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 464 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226448169
SKU
V9780226448169
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Ref
99-50

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