Research Catalog

Title

The case of Peter Pan, or, The impossibility of children's fiction / Jacqueline Rose.

Author

Rose, Jacqueline

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

xviii, 181 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

Series Statement

New cultural studies

Uniform Title

New cultural studies

Alternative Title

• Impossibility of children's fiction
• Impossibility of children's fiction.

Subject

• Barrie, J. M. 1860-1937
• Peter Pan (Fictitious character)
• Children's stories > History and criticism
• Children > Books and reading
• Children in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1984.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-171) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Return of Peter Pan ix -- 1 Peter Pan and Freud: Who is talking and to whom? 12 -- 2 Rousseau and Alan Garner: Innocence of the child and of the word 42 -- 3 Peter Pan and Literature for the Child: Confusion of tongues 66 -- 4 Peter Pan and Commercialisation of the Child: Children are a good sell 87 -- 5 Peter Pan, Language and the State: Captain Hook goes to Eton 115.

ISBN

0812214358 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^92030533^

OCLC

• 26673441
• SCSB-12728432

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library