Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral : (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral : (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Denise Burkhard

Språken
FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847016045

Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale',