Precocious children and childish adults age inversion in Victorian literature /
"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 ubiquitou...
Основен автор: | Nelson, Claudia. |
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Формат: | Електронен |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Precocious children and childish adults. |
Съдържание:
- The old-fashioned child and the uncanny double
- The arrested child-man and social threat
- Women as girls
- Girls as women
- Boys as men
- Conclusion: The adult reader as child.