Breaking the Angelic Image: Woman Power in Victorian Children's Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9780313261275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 156 str.

Edith Lazaros Honig

Opis

Through a close reading of major works in nineteenth-century children's fantasy, Honig demonstrates that although Victorian women were still being repressed in the home and the marketplace, the female figure in literature played a role that was quite different from the traditional stereotype of the meek, submissive wife and mother.