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050	0	4	_aPR468 _b.P743 2012
100	1		_aNelson, Claudia. _e1
245	1	0	_aPrecocious children and childish adults : _bage inversion in Victorian literature / _cClaudia Nelson.
260			_aBaltimore, Md. : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource (224 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period. Though far from ubiquitous, the terms "child-woman," "child-man," and "old-fashioned child" appear often enough in Victorian writings to prompt critical questions about the motivations and meanings of such generational border-crossings. Nelson carefully considers the use of these terms and connects invocations of age inversion to developments in post-Darwinian scientific thinking and attitudes about gender roles, social class, sexuality, power, and economic mobility. She brilliantly analyzes canonical works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside lesser known writings to demonstrate the diversity of literary age inversion and its profound influence on Victorian culture. By considering the full context of Victorian age inversion, Precocious Children and Childish Adults illuminates the complicated pattern of anxiety and desire that creates such ambiguity in the writings of the time. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children's literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent study from a major figure in the field."--Project Muse.
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505	0	0	_aThe old-fashioned child and the uncanny double -- _tThe arrested child-man and social threat -- _tWomen as girls -- _tGirls as women -- _tBoys as men -- _tConclusion: The adult reader as child.
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650		0	_aBooks and reading _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAdulthood in literature.
650		0	_aChildren in literature.
650		0	_aChildren's stories, English _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=597696&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell