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Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 Author: Maxwell, Catherine
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COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association
Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. By CATHERINE ROBSON. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2001. xii+ 250 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-69100-422-6.
Catherine Robson's attractively presented and accessible study Men in Wonderland promises an intriguing new angle on the subject of Victorian masculinity. Robson suggests that writings by various nineteenth-century British male authors 'insist that perfect childhood is always exemplified by a little girl, and [...], despite the logical and biological impossibilities of the stance, lament a man's lost girlhood' (p. 5). Such a proposition rests on a division between the...
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