Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature by Marah Gu

Description: Artful Dodgers by Marah Gubar Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childrens literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was much slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it-childrens authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"-were actually deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather thanwholeheartedly promoting a static ideal of childhood purity, Golden Age childrens authors often characterize young people as collaborators who are caught up in the constraints of the culture they inhabit, and yet not inevitably victimized as a result of this contact with adults and their world. Such nuancedmeditations on the vexed issue of the childs agency, Gubar suggests, can help contemporary scholars to generate more flexible critical approaches to the study of childhood and childrens literature. Publisher Description This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and childrens literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was muchslower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--childrens authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--were actually deeplyambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather than wholeheartedly promoting a static ideal of childhood purity, Golden Age childrens authors often characterize young people as collaborators who are caught up in the constraints of the culture they inhabit, and yet not inevitably victimized as a result of this contact with adults and their world. Such nuanced meditations on the vexed issue of the childs agency, Gubar suggests, can help contemporary scholars to generate more flexible criticalapproaches to the study of childhood and childrens literature. Author Biography Marah Gubar is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Childrens Literature Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Details ISBN 0199756740 ISBN-13 9780199756742 Title Artful Dodgers Author Marah Gubar Format Paperback Year 2010 Pages 280 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137012971; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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