LEADER 03042nam 2200517 u 450 001 9910898692603321 005 20241119163825.0 010 $a0199714479 010 $a0-19-988744-6 010 $a0-19-971447-9 010 $a1-281-98706-9 010 $a9786611987060 010 $a0-19-975674-0 010 $a0-19-986849-2 035 $a(CKB)28298686100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415096 035 $a(VLeBooks)9780199887446 035 $a(OCoLC) 231745547 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB166041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928298686100041 100 $a20230928d2009uuuu uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 200 $aArtful dodgers: reconceiving the golden age of children's literature 210 $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 311 $a9780195336252 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index. 330 $aIn this new account of the Golden Age of children's fiction, Marah Gubar offers a redefinition of the phenomenon known as the 'cult of the child'. Artful Dodgers looks at the works of Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and J. M. Barrie - authors traditionally criticized for arresting the child in a position of iconic innocence - and contends that they in fact rejected this simplistic "child of Nature" paradigm in favor of one based on the child as an artful collaborator. Resisting the Romantic tendency to imagine the child as a pure point of origin, they acknowledge the pervasive power of adult influence, while suggesting that children can and have shared in the shaping of their stories. In her examinations of such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island, and The Secret Garden, Gubar uncovers a childhood culture of collaboration in Victorian England in which the ability to work and play alongside adults was often taken for granted. True, this era saw a host of new efforts to establish a strict dividing line between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience. But despite strenuous reform efforts, many Victorians remained unconvinced of the separateness and sanctity of childhood, including the most influential participants in the cult of the child. Long condemned for erecting a barrier of sentimental nostalgia between adult and child, many late Victorians are here shown to have resisted this trend by instead conceiving of the child as uniquely capable of artistic and intellectual partnership. 606 $aAdolescence in literature 606 $aChildren in literature 606 $aChildren's literature, English 606 $aEnglish literature 615 0$aAdolescence in literature 615 0$aChildren in literature 615 0$aChildren's literature, English 615 0$aEnglish literature 676 $a820.9928209034 700 $aGubar$b Marah$01707065 801 0$bFINmELB 801 1$bFINmELB 801 2$bFINmELB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910898692603321 996 $aArtful dodgers$94094977 997 $aUNINA