TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sattaur,Jennifer
TI  - Perceptions of Childhood in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
SN  - 9781443827706
AV  - PN56.5.C48 
U1  - 820.9352309034 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
KW  - Children in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Children's literature, English
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature de jeunesse anglaise
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: change and childhood -- Childhood and evolution: Jekyll and Hyde and the monstrous child -- Childhood and aestheticism: The Happy Prince and the idealised child -- Childhood and religion: Lilith and the suffering child -- Childhood and empire: The Jungle Books and the savage child -- The uncanny child: The Turn of the Screw -- Childhood and education: Cautionary Tales for Children and the criminal child -- Conclusion: child and trickster: the end of eras
N2  - This book reads Victorian fin de siècle literature through the medium of perceptions of childhood. It examines the connection between 'monstrous' and idealistic symbolic representations of childhood represented by key cultural discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Specifically, anxieties about change are linked closely to anxieties about childhood, procreation, and maturation in a range of Children's and Adults' texts from the 1860s to the 1890s. The book demonstrates the ways in which t
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