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The Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7)

Fiona McCulloch

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Description:This book studies canonical children's literature during what is perceived to be the first Golden Age of this genre. Building upon critical studies, such as Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan, the instability at the heart of children's literature is examined. The notion that children's fiction promotes a discursive innocence is resisted by analyzing texts written specifically for a child readership. Textual tensions and desires inscribed from adult culture's penmanship, and the subversion of childhood's mythopoeic status are unveiled through critical analysis, highlighting the complex imbalance between adult narrator and child character. Just as childhood and its connotations of innocence are a cultural adult production, so must children's fiction incorporate an element of adult masquerade, where the child character embodies a performative dimension of the adult narrator's psyche. A critical metaphor, 'textual pedophilia' encapsulates the literary and discursive desire for innocence ruptured by the adult palimpsest of a postlapsarian authorial presence. The title refers to the imaginative preoccupations of childhood as transfixed by a performative adult creativity hiding behinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7). To get started finding The Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book studies canonical children's literature during what is perceived to be the first Golden Age of this genre. Building upon critical studies, such as Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan, the instability at the heart of children's literature is examined. The notion that children's fiction promotes a discursive innocence is resisted by analyzing texts written specifically for a child readership. Textual tensions and desires inscribed from adult culture's penmanship, and the subversion of childhood's mythopoeic status are unveiled through critical analysis, highlighting the complex imbalance between adult narrator and child character. Just as childhood and its connotations of innocence are a cultural adult production, so must children's fiction incorporate an element of adult masquerade, where the child character embodies a performative dimension of the adult narrator's psyche. A critical metaphor, 'textual pedophilia' encapsulates the literary and discursive desire for innocence ruptured by the adult palimpsest of a postlapsarian authorial presence. The title refers to the imaginative preoccupations of childhood as transfixed by a performative adult creativity hiding behinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7). To get started finding The Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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