Victorian Children’s Literature (eBook)

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.  

Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgments                                                                                                           

1—Introduction: Emerging Identities and the Practice of Possibility                             

2—Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: Disrupting Dominant Values and Cultural Identity in Children’s Literature  

3— Gender, Abjection, and Coming of Age: Games, Dolls, and Stories                      

4—Constructing the Self: Connection and Separation                                                 

5—Giving Voice to Abjection: Experience and Empathy                                           

6—Engendering Abjection’s Sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden      

7—Embodying Herethics: Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses                                             

Conclusion—Abjection’s Sublime: Imagining Love                                                      

Notes                                                                                                                                  

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