Breaking the angelic image : woman power in Victorian children's fantasy
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Breaking the angelic image : woman power in Victorian children's fantasy
（Contributions in women's studies, no. 97）
Greenwood Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [143]-149
Includes index
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Description
Honig's short, pleasantly written book is a consideration of the images of women--as mothers, spinsters, girls, and supernatural women--in 19th-and early 20th-century fantasy novels for children. . . . Honig sees fantasy as a means of freeing women from the Victorian social restraints--at first, imaginatively. Choice
This is the first book-length study of nineteenth-century children's fantasy from a feminist viewpoint. Honig focuses on a number of major works that are representative of the best of their era--including such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll; The Golden Key, The Princess and the Goblin, and others by George MacDonald; the works of Mary Louisa Molesworth; Peter and Wendy by James Barrie; The Five Children and Itand The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit. Through a close reading of these fantasies Honig demonstrates that although Victorian women were still being repressed in the home and the marketplace, the female figure in literature played a role that was quite different from the traditional stereotype of the meek, submissive wife and mother.
Table of Contents
Mothers: When They Were Good, They Were Gone Spinsters: Life Still Held Some Charm Girls: Breaking the Angelic Magical Woman: The Positive Force of Women Power Bibliography Index
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