Exploited, empowered, ephemeral : : (re-)constructions of childhood in neo-victorian fiction / / Denise Burkhard.

• Superior document: Representations & Reflections
• VerfasserIn: Burkhard, Denise, 1991-
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R Unipress,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Representations & Reflections
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neo-Victorian Fiction: Features and Developments of a Distinctive Type of Historical Fiction -- 3. Children and Childhood: Historical Developments and Literary Representations in Victorian Literature -- 4. Representations of Children in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Towards a Typology -- 5. Possible-Worlds Theory as a Tool for Analysing Historical Fiction -- 6. Ephemeral (Neo-)Victorian Childhood in Pearce's Time-Slip Novel Tom's Midnight Garden -- 6.1. Tom: Growing up in the 1950s -- 6.2. Hatty: Late-Victorian Girlhood -- 6.3. Concluding Remarks -- 7. Competing Visions of Childhood in Ibbotson's Neo-Victorian Adventure Novel Journey to the River Sea -- 7.1. Maia: An Orphan's (Real and Imagined) Journey to the Amazon -- 7.2. Mr and Mrs Carter: Negligent Foster Parents -- 7.3. Beatrice and Gwendolyn: Unchildlike and Cruel Twins -- 7.4. Finn: A Part-Indigenous Rousseauian ˋChild in Nature' -- 7.5. Clovis: The Lived and Performed Childhoods of a Child Actor -- 7.6. Concluding Remarks -- 8. Blighted Neo-Victorian Childhoods in Waters' Fingersmith -- 8.1. Maud: The Corrupted, Exploited and Abused Child -- 8.2. Sue: The Commodified Child -- 8.3. Charles: Between Childhood and Adulthood -- 8.4. Concluding Remarks -- 9. Childhood Neglect and Pathological Relationships in Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale -- 9.1. Charlie and Isabelle: Obsession, Sadomasochism and Incest -- 9.2. Emmeline and Adeline: Twinship, Neglect and (In)‍Separability -- 9.3. Shadow and Aurelius: Identity, Illegitimacy and Abandonment -- 9.4. Concluding Remarks -- 10. Conclusion -- 11. Works Cited.