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Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19990101
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Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity, by U.C. Knoepflmacher.

No turf is off-limits for l9th-century gender wars, least of all children's fairy tales. This book explores how four male and three female authors' constructions of childhood in fairy tales point to their gendered views of identity. The tales by men, including John Rushlin, William Makepeace Thackeray, George MacDonald, and Lewis Carroll, all use a female reader protagonist, downplaying sexual differences and sentimentalizing an arrested childhood. By contrast, those by women, including Jean Ingelow, ...

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