Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Worlds Enough and Time: The Cult of Childhood in Edwardian Fiction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Pagan Papers: History, Mysticism, and Edwardian Childhood....Pages 23-36
Cult or Cull?: Peter Pan and Childhood in the Edwardian Age....Pages 37-52
Intangible Children: Longing, Loss, and the Edwardian Dream Child in J. M. Barrie’s The Little White Bird and Rudyard Kipling’s ‘“They”’....Pages 53-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Edwardian Child in the Garden: Childhood in the Fiction of Frances Hodgson Burnett....Pages 75-88
Playing at House and Playing at Home: The Domestic Discourse of Games in Edwardian Fictions of Childhood....Pages 89-102
Separated Lives and Discordant Homes: The Otherness of Childhood in D. H. Lawrence’s Edwardian Fiction....Pages 103-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Exhibiting Childhood: E. Nesbit and the Children’s Welfare Exhibitions....Pages 125-142
‘Girls! Girls, Everywhere!’: Angela Brazil’s Edwardian School Stories....Pages 143-158
Towards the Modern Man: Edwardian Boyhood in the Juvenile Periodical Press....Pages 159-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Primitive Minds: Anthropology, Children, and Savages in Andrew Lang and Rudyard Kipling....Pages 177-190
Truth and Claw: The Beastly Children and Childlike Beasts of Saki, Beatrix Potter, and Kenneth Grahame....Pages 191-207
Murdering Adulthood: From Child Killers to Boy Soldiers in Saki’s Fiction....Pages 208-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-236