Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature

by Marah Gubar

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children's literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was much slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--were actually deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199756740
• ISBN13: 9780199756742
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"