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- 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
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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California State University, Fresno , Fresno, USA
Ruth Y. Jenkins
About the author
Ruth Y. Jenkins is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Reclaiming Myths of Power: The Victorian Spiritual Crisis and Women Writers and numerous articles on Victorian literature and culture, children’s literature, feminist, cultural, and writing theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Children’s Literature
Book Subtitle: Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love
Authors: Ruth Y. Jenkins
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32762-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32761-7Published: 04 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81363-9Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32762-4Published: 22 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Topics: Children's Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature