Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time

Contents......Page 8
1 Worlds Enough and Time: The Cult of Childhood in Edwardian Fiction......Page 10
Part I: The Child Lost......Page 30
2 Pagan Papers: History, Mysticism, and Edwardian Childhood......Page 32
3 Cult or Cull?: Peter Pan and Childhood in the Edwardian Age......Page 46
4 Intangible Children: Longing, Loss, and the Edwardian Dream Child in J. M. Barrie\'s The Little White Bird and Rudyard Kipling\'s \'\"They\"\'......Page 62
Part II: The Child at Play in Home and Garden......Page 82
5 The Edwardian Child in the Garden: Childhood in the Fiction of Frances Hodgson Burnett......Page 84
6 Playing at House and Playing at Home: The Domestic Discourse of Games in Edwardian Fictions of Childhood......Page 98
7 Separated Lives and Discordant Homes: The Otherness of Childhood in D. H. Lawrence\'s Edwardian Fiction......Page 112
Part III: Society\'s Child......Page 132
8 Exhibiting Childhood: E. Nesbit and the Children\'s Welfare Exhibitions......Page 134
9 \'Girls! Girls, Everywhere!\': Angela Brazil\'s Edwardian School Stories......Page 152
10 Towards the Modern Man: Edwardian Boyhood in the Juvenile Periodical Press......Page 168
Part IV: Savagery and the Child......Page 184
11 Primitive Minds: Anthropology, Children, and Savages in Andrew Lang and Rudyard Kipling......Page 186
12 Truth and Claw: The Beastly Children and Childlike Beasts of Saki, Beatrix Potter, and Kenneth Grahame......Page 200
13 Murdering Adulthood: From Child Killers to Boy Soldiers in Saki\'s Fiction......Page 217
Notes on Contributors......Page 233
B......Page 238
D......Page 239
G......Page 240
K......Page 241
N......Page 242
Q......Page 243
S......Page 244
Y......Page 245