Victorian Children’s Literature
Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love
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Beschreibung
This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.
Sheds new light on Victorian children’s literature by studying the question of psychic development and cultural anxiety Provides a new perspective on abjection by revealing its creative possibility and potential for transformation Draws connections between the genre of children's literature and subjectivity by showing how character narrators provide models for subject formation
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Ruth Y. Jenkins
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