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Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral
(Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction
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Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral
(Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction
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Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).
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- 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
- 7. Competing Visions of Childhood in Ibbotson's Neo-Victorian Adventure Novel Journey to the River Sea
- 8. Blighted Neo-Victorian Childhoods in Waters' Fingersmith
- 9. Childhood Neglect and Pathological Relationships in Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale
- 10. Conclusion
- 11. Works Cited