Men in wonderland : the lost girlhood of the Victorian gentleman
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Men in wonderland : the lost girlhood of the Victorian gentleman
Princeton University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index
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内容説明
Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. This text explores the ways in which various 19th-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the nature of their investment in the figure of the girl. In so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of young girls and a widespread fantasy of male development - a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an initial feminine stage. Little girls, argues Robson, othus offer an adult male the best opportunity to reconnect with his own lost self. This book contributes to a growing interest in the 19th century's construction of childhood, sexuality and masculinity, and illuminates their complex interconnections in a different light.
目次
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Of Prisons and ngrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood 16 CHAPTER TWO The Ideal Girl in Industrial England 46 CHAPTER THREE The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" 94 CHAPTER FOUR Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement 129 CHAPTER FIVE A "New 'Cry of the Children' ": Legislating Innocence in the 1880s 154 APPENDIX Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 195 Notes 199 Works Cited 231 Index 243
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