This e-book finds how the period’s reworking identities tormented by social, fiscal, spiritual, and nationwide energies bargains wealthy possibilities during which to investigate the connection among id and transformation. on the center of this examine is that this query: what's the dating among Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins makes use of Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection to discover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works via Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.
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