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Toy stories : analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature / Vanessa Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane), author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Educational literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Educational literature.
- Children in literature.
- Play in literature.
- Child analysis--History.
- Child analysis.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Radically re-conceiving 19th-century childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes, theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, 'Toy Stories' proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about child's play that in turn provides a deep context for understanding both the 'development' of the novel and the keen British uptake of Melanie Klein's and Anna Freud's interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its object-mediated manifestations.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2023.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781531504281
- 1531504280
- 9781531503598
- 1531503594
- OCLC:
- 1411754554
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