Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre, examining all facets of her work in relation to her private life. Daphne Kutzer reveals the depth of the symbolism in Potter s work and relates this to the issues of the author's own development as an independent woman and writer, and her struggles with domesticity, Unitarianism, and the socio-political...
Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are s...
Daphne M. Kutzer Suny Plattsburgh M. Daphne Kutzer
Placing classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain, this work focuses on the themes of patriotism and imperialism from 1895 to about 1945. The book begins with Rudyard Kipling and ends with Arthur Ransome, examining the crucial years from the height of Britain's empire at the end of the 19th century to its waning years prior to World War II. It explores the way that British imperialist tendencies lingered into children's texts well into the 1980s. Other writers examined include Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbitt, A.A. Milne and Hugh Lofting, all...
Placing classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain, this work focuses on the themes of patriotism and im...
Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre, examining all facets of her work in relation to her private life. Daphne Kutzer reveals the depth of the symbolism in Potter's work and relates this to the issues of the author's own development as an independent woman and writer, and her struggles with domesticity, Unitarianism, and the socio-political...
Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are s...
