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BL
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993246
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b747616
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Gubar, Marah,1973-
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| Title & Author
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Artful dodgers : : reconceiving the golden age of children's literature /\ Marah Gubar.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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[CRKN ebooks]
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[MyiLibrary]
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0195336259
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: 0199714479
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: 1281987069
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: 6611987061
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: 9780195336252
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: 9780199714476
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: 9781281987068
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: 9786611987060
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0199756740
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9780199756742
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
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| Contents
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Our field: the rise of the child narrator -- Collaborating with the enemy: Treasure Island -- Reciprocal aggression: unromantic agency in the art of Lewis Carroll -- Partners in crime: E. Nesbit and the art of thieving -- The cult of the child and the controversy over child actors -- Burnett, Barrie, and the emergence of children's theatre.
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| Abstract
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"In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childhood studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly 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. Writers such as Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and J.M. Barrie often resisted the growing cultural pressure to erect a strict barrier between child and adult, innocence and experience. Instead of urging young people to mold themselves to match a static ideal of artless simplicity, they frequently conceived of children as precociously literate, highly socialized beings who--though indisputably shaped by the strictures of civilized life--could nevertheless cope with such influences in creative ways"--Abstract.
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Adolescence in literature.
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Children in literature.
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Children's literature, English-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Adolescence in literature.
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Childhood in literature.
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Children in literature.
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Children's literature, English.
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Children''s literature, English.
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English literature.
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Adolescence in literature.
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Children in literature.
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Children's literature, English.
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English literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/928209034
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PR990.G83 2009 Online
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Oxford University Press.
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