Men in Wonderland : : The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman /

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Robson, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 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

Similar Items