Victorian Children's Literature: Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                                                           

1-Introduction: Emerging Identities and the Practice of Possibility                             

2-Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: Disrupting Dominant Values and Cultural Identity in Children's Literature  

3- Gender, Abjection, and Coming of Age: Games, Dolls, and Stories                      

4-Constructing the Self: Connection and Separation                                                 

5-Giving Voice to Abjection: Experience and Empathy                                           

6-Engendering Abjection's Sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden      

7-Embodying Herethics: Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses                                             

Conclusion-Abjection's Sublime: Imagining Love                                                      

Notes