Victorian Children’s Literature: Experiencing Abjection, by Ruth Y. Jenkins
By Ruth Y. Jenkins
This booklet finds how the period’s remodeling identities stricken by social, financial, 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 courting 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 through Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.
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