Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

by U.C. Knoepflmacher

Book Overview

Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," U. C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate, probing deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226448150
• ISBN13: 9780226448152
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"