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.
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