LEADER 03362nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910821864603321 005 20241119163801.0 010 0 $a0199714479 010 0 $a9780199714476 010 $a9780199868490 (ebook) :$dNo price 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7038998 035 $a(CKB)24235120000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053326 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415096 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL198706 035 $a(OCoLC)476239973 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235120000041 100 $a20080602d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArtful dodgers $ereconceiving the golden age of children's literature /$fMarah Gubar 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $axii, 264 p. $cill 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index. 327 $aIntro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" -- CHAPTER ONE: "Our Field": The Rise of the Child Narrator -- CHAPTER TWO: Collaborating with the Enemy: Treasure Island as Anti-Adventure Story -- CHAPTER THREE: Reciprocal Aggression: Un-Romantic Agency in the Art of Lewis Carroll -- CHAPTER FOUR: Partners in Crime: E. Nesbit and the Art of Thieving -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Cult of the Child and the Controversy over Child Actors -- CHAPTER SIX: Burnett, Barrie, and the Emergence of Children's Theatre -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 330 $aIn this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children's literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was much slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--were actually deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather than wholeheartedly promoting a static ideal of childhood purity, Golden Age children's authors often characterize young people as collaborators who are caught up in the constraints of the culture they inhabit, and yet not inevitably victimized as a result of this contact with adults and their world. Such nuanced meditations on the vexed issue of the child's agency, Gubar suggests, can help contemporary scholars to generate more flexible critical approaches to the study of childhood and children's literature. 606 $aChildren's literature, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChildren in literature 606 $aAdolescence in literature 615 0$aChildren's literature, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChildren in literature. 615 0$aAdolescence in literature. 676 $a820.9/928209034 700 $aGubar$b Marah$01707065 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910821864603321 996 $aArtful dodgers$94094977 997 $aUNINA