Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature Smith Vanessa
Toy Stories: analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long…
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Toy Stories: analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth-century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives, giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realism's solid objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first study to take these scenes of anger and
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