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Gender Trouble in Arcadia or a world of multigendered possibility? Intersubjectivity and gender in The Wind in the Willows.(a book by Kenneth Grahame)(Critical essay)

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From: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
Date: 20061201
Author:Walsh, Claire

'Liberal' feminist readings: Misogynistic overtones in The Wind in the Willows

According to Peter Green, sex (and more particularly puberty/adolescence) is one of the 'great enemies' in Kenneth Grahame's world because it signals the end of childhood innocence, and 'breaks up the ideal pattern' (1982, p.117). Grahame himself claimed that by using anthropomorphized characters, instead of humans for The Wind in the Willows, he avoided 'weary sex problems' (cited in Green 1982, p.117). In a letter to his publishers at Charles Scribner's, Grahame's insistence that The Wind in the ...

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