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Author:

Robson, Catherine, 1962-

Title:

Men in wonderland : the lost girlhood of the Victorian gentlemen / Catherine Robson.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Carroll, Lewis,--1832-1898--Girls.--Girls.
Ruskin, John,--1819-1900--Girls.--Girls.
Carroll, Lewis,--1832-1898--Filles.--Filles.
Ruskin, John,--1819-1900--Filles.--Filles.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Girls in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Innocence (Psychology) in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Children in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Men in literature.
Littérature anglaise--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Filles dans la littérature.
Identité sexuelle dans la littérature.
Enfants dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Hommes dans la littérature
Écrits d'hommes américains--Histoire et critique.
Naïveté dans la littérature.

Notes:

Based on the author's disertation. Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

Contents:

Of prisons and ungrown girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and the construction of the lost self of childhood -- The ideal girl in industrial England -- The stones of childhood: Ruskin's "Lost jewels" -- Lewis Carroll and the little girl: the art of self-effacement -- A "new 'cry of the children'": legislating innocence in the 1880s -- Lewis Carroll's letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885.

ISBN:

9780691004228 (alk. paper)
0691004226 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45102925

LCCN:

00048321

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)