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100 1 $aRobson, Catherine,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00032772
245 10 $aMen in wonderland :$bthe lost girlhood of the Victorian gentlemen /$cCatherine Robson.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axii, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tOf Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood --$gCh. 2.$tThe Ideal Girl in Industrial England --$gCh. 3.$tThe Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's "Lost Jewels" --$gCh. 4.$tLewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement --$gCh. 5.$tA 'New 'Cry of the Children'": Legislating Innocence in the 1880s --$gApp.$tLewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885.
520 1 $a"Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In Men in Wonderland, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the nature of their investment in the figure of the girl.
520 8 $aIn so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of male development - a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an initial feminine stage, lived out in the protective environment of the nursery. Little girls, argues Robson, thus offer an adult male the best opportunity to reconnect with his own lost self.".
520 8 $a"Men in Wonderland contributes to a growing interest in the nineteenth century's construction of childhood, sexuality, and masculinity, and illuminates their complex interconnections with a startlingly different light.
520 8 $aNot only does it complicate the narratives of pedophilic desire that are generally used to explain figures like Ruskin and Carroll, but it offers a new understanding of the Victorian era's obsession with loss, its rampant sentimentality, and its intense valorization of the little girl at the expense of mature femininity."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102754
650 0 $aGirls in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055024
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119680
600 10 $aCarroll, Lewis,$d1832-1898$xCharacters$xGirls.
600 10 $aRuskin, John,$d1819-1900$xCharacters$xGirls.
650 0 $aInnocence (Psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005098
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004327
650 0 $aChildren in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023534
650 0 $aSex role in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120668
650 0 $aMen in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083528
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