Victorian Children’s Literature

Ruth Y. Jenkins is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Reclaiming Myths of Power: The Victorian Spiritual Crisis and Women Writers and numerous articles on Victorian literature and culture, children’s literature, feminist, cultural, and writing theory.  

Introduction: Emerging Identities and the Practice of Possibility.- Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, 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.- Embodying Herethics: Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses.- Conclusion-Abjection's Sublime: Imagining Love.- Notes.- Bibliography.