Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity / by Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Table of Contents: “…Entering childhood : the double perspectives of generation and sex -- Resisting growth : Ruskin's The king of the golden river -- Growing up ironic : Thackeray's The rose and the ring -- Mixing levity and the grave : MacDonald's "The light princess" -- Expanding Alice : from Underground to Wonderland -- Shrinking Alice : from Wonderland to Looking-glass land -- Erasing borders : MacDonald's At the back of the north wind -- Sundering women from boys : Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy -- Razing male preserves : from "Goblin market" to Sing-Song -- Avenging Alice : from Sing-Song to Speaking likenesses -- Repairing female authority : Ewing's "Amelia and the dwarfs".…”