Victorian Children’s Literature Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love
Description
This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.
Keywords
Literary CriticismChildren's & Young Adult LiteratureEuropeanModern19th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2016Book
Author(s)Ruth Y. Jenkins
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
ISBN9783319327617
LanguageEnglish
