Men in Wonderland : : The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman / / Catherine Robson.
Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In Men in Wonderland, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various nine...
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Robson, Catherine, author. Men in Wonderland : The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman / Catherine Robson. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood -- CHAPTER TWO. The Ideal Girl in Industrial England -- CHAPTER THREE. The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement -- CHAPTER FIVE. A "New 'Cry of the Children"5 : Legislating Innocence in the 1880s -- APPENDIX. Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In Men in Wonderland, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the nature of their investment in the figure of the girl. In so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of male development--a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an initial feminine stage, lived out in the protective environment of the nursery. Little girls, argues Robson, thus offer an adult male the best opportunity to reconnect with his own lost self. Tracing the beginnings of this myth in the writings of Romantics Wordsworth and De Quincey, Robson identifies the consolidation of this paradigm in numerous Victorian artifacts, ranging from literary works by Dickens and Barrett Browning, to paintings by Frith and Millais, to reports of the Royal Commission on Children's Employment. She analyzes Ruskin and Carroll's "high noon" of girl worship and investigates the destruction of the fantasy in the closing decades of the century, when social concerns about the working girl sexualized the image of young females. Men in Wonderland contributes to a growing interest in the nineteenth century's construction of childhood, sexuality, and masculinity, and illuminates their complex interconnections with a startlingly different light. Not only does it complicate the narratives of pedophilic desire that are generally used to explain figures like Ruskin and Carroll, but it offers a new understanding of the Victorian era's obsession with loss, its rampant sentimentality, and its intense valorization of the little girl at the expense of mature femininity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Children in literature. English literature Male authors History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Gender identity in literature. Girls in literature. Innocence (Psychology) in literature. Sex role in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187709?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187709.jpg |
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Robson, Catherine, Men in Wonderland : The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood -- CHAPTER TWO. The Ideal Girl in Industrial England -- CHAPTER THREE. The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement -- CHAPTER FIVE. A "New 'Cry of the Children"5 : Legislating Innocence in the 1880s -- APPENDIX. Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood -- CHAPTER TWO. The Ideal Girl in Industrial England -- CHAPTER THREE. The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement -- CHAPTER FIVE. A "New 'Cry of the Children"5 : Legislating Innocence in the 1880s -- APPENDIX. Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood -- CHAPTER TWO. The Ideal Girl in Industrial England -- CHAPTER THREE. The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement -- CHAPTER FIVE. A "New 'Cry of the Children"5 : Legislating Innocence in the 1880s -- APPENDIX. Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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