TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacqueline Banerjee
PY  - 1997
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453909669
TI  - Through the Northern Gate
T2  - Childhood and Growing Up in British Fiction, 1719-1901
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0966-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054381
N2  - This study challenges critical orthodoxy by showing that childhood became a focus of interest in British fiction well before the Romantic period. It also argues that children in the Victorian novel, far from being sentimental figures, are psychologically unique and contribute positively and significantly to the narrative discourse. Contemporary ideology, the novelists' autobiographical and humanitarian impulses, and gender issues, are all examined as factors in this development. Works by the major authors are analysed alongside others by non-canonical and children's writers.
KW  - ideology, gender, development
LA  - English
ER  -