Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral : (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkhard, Denise.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Representations & reflections

Representations & Reflections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.).

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : V&R Unipress, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Body

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Neo-Victorian Fiction: Features and Developments of a Distinctive Type of Historical Fiction

3. Children and Childhood: Historical Developments and Literary Representations in Victorian Literature

4. Representations of Children in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Towards a Typology

5. Possible-Worlds Theory as a Tool for Analysing Historical Fiction

6. Ephemeral (Neo-)Victorian Childhood in Pearce's Time-Slip Novel Tom's Midnight Garden

6.1. Tom: Growing up in the 1950s

6.2. Hatty: Late-Victorian Girlhood

6.3. Concluding Remarks

7. Competing Visions of Childhood in Ibbotson's Neo-Victorian Adventure Novel Journey to the River Sea

7.1. Maia: An Orphan's (Real and Imagined) Journey to the Amazon

7.2. Mr and Mrs Carter: Negligent Foster Parents

7.3. Beatrice and Gwendolyn: Unchildlike and Cruel Twins

7.4. Finn: A Part-Indigenous Rousseauian 'Child in Nature'

7.5. Clovis: The Lived and Performed Childhoods of a Child Actor

7.6. Concluding Remarks

8. Blighted Neo-Victorian Childhoods in Waters' Fingersmith

8.1. Maud: The Corrupted, Exploited and Abused Child

8.2. Sue: The Commodified Child

8.3. Charles: Between Childhood and Adulthood

8.4. Concluding Remarks

9. Childhood Neglect and Pathological Relationships in Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

9.1. Charlie and Isabelle: Obsession, Sadomasochism and Incest

9.2. Emmeline and Adeline: Twinship, Neglect and (In)⁻Separability

9.3. Shadow and Aurelius: Identity, Illegitimacy and Abandonment

9.4. Concluding Remarks

10. Conclusion

11. Works Cited

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Burkhard, Denise Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral

ISBN:

9783847016045

3847016040

Publisher Number:

99994718218

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Restricted for use by site license.