Tuesday, February 21, 2012

UT Austin's Marah Gubar's Book--

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

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

In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children’s scientific studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was a lot slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the folks whom we assume had been most committed to it–children’s authors and members of the infamous “cult of the youngster”–were really deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather than wholeheartedly promoting a static ide

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