Ventures into childland
Subtitle: Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity
By: U.C. Knoepflmacher.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism; Girls -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century; Fairy tales -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism; Children's literature, English -- Illustrations; Children's literature -- Psychological aspects; Femininity in literature; Sex role in literature; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
Description: Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate.

Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," Knoepflmacher probes deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and between the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.