Perceptions of childhood in the Victorian fin-de-siecle / by Jennifer Sattaur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sattaur, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Children's literature, English--History and criticism.

Children's literature, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reads Victorian fin de siècle literature through the medium of perceptions of childhood. It examines the connection between 'monstrous' and idealistic symbolic representations of childhood represented by key cultural discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Specifically, anxieties about change are linked closely to anxieties about childhood, procreation, and maturation in a range of Children's and Adults' texts from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book demonstrates the ways in which t...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-161) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14223-6

1-4438-2770-3

9786613142238

OCLC:

827209129