Title: Ventures into Childland
First published: 1998
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."
Subjects: History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Children's literature, English, English literature, Girls, Children's literature, Books and reading, Sex differences, Fairy tales, Femininity in literature, English Fantasy literature, Illustrations, Authorship, Fantasy literature, English, Psychological aspects of Children's literature, Psychological aspects, History, Children's literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Fairy tales, history and criticism, Authorship, sex differences, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Feminist literary criticism
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901
LC classification: PR990 .K58 1998