Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story

by Kenneth Gross

Book Overview

Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction.

Ranging from Victorian to modern works--Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry James's What Maisie Knew, J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, Franz Kafka's "The Cares of a Family Man," Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica, Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita--Kenneth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226819779
• ISBN13: 9780226819778
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"