Victorian Children¿s Literature

Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-32761-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3695 g

Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development?  Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenkins, Ruth Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.                          

Über Autor(innen)

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.