What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part? In a new preface written especially for this edition, Rose accounts for some of the new developments since her book's first publication in 1984. She discusses some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

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Book Title: The Case of Peter Pan
Book Subtitle: or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction
Authors: Jacqueline Rose
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23208-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-23208-6Published: 14 January 1994
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 181
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Front Matter

Introduction

Peter Pan and Freud

Rousseau and Alan Garner

Peter Pan and Literature for the Child

Peter Pan and Commercialisation of the Child

Peter Pan, Language and the State

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