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experiencing abjection, empathy, and the power of love
This book reveals how the period's transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question. What is the relationship between Victorian children's literature, its readers and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell and Rossetti.
Introduction: emerging identities and the practice of possibility -- Imagining the abject in Kinsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: disrupting dominant values and cultural identity in children's literature -- Gender, abjection, and coming of age: games, dolls, and stories -- Constructing the self: connection and separation -- Giving voice to abjection: experience and empathy -- Engendering abjection's sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Critical approaches to children's literature