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

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

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Superior document:Representations & Reflections
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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)
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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.

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