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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Ruth Y., 1959- author.

Series:

Critical approaches to children's literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature.

Abjection in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 190 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.

ISBN:

3319327615

9783319327617

OCLC:

945232039