Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story Gross Kenneth
Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction.Ranging from Victorian to modern examples--Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry…
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Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction.Ranging from Victorian to modern examples--Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry James's What Maisie Knew, J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, Franz Kafka's "The Cares of a Family Man," Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica, Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita--Kenneth Gross's book explores stories that center around the figure of a strange and dangerous child.Whether written for adults or child readers, or both at once, these stories all show us odd, even frightening visions of innocence. We see these children's uncanny powers of speech, knowledge, and play, as well as their nonsense and violence. And, in the tales, these child-lives keep changing shape. These are children
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