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État
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Book Title
Toy Stories
Publication Name
Toy Stories : Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Title
Toy Stories
Subtitle
Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author
Vanessa Smith
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1531503578
EAN
9781531503574
ISBN
9781531503574
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Genre
Society & Culture
Subject
Literary Criticism
Release Date
05/09/2023
Release Year
2023
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.8in
Item Length
9.3in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Item Width
6.3in
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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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 overwhelm seriously, challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century childhood and its literary depiction as anticipat-ing the scenes, theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about child's play that in turn provides a deep context for understanding both the "development" of the novel and the keen British uptake of Melanie Klein's and Anna Freud's interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its object-mediated manifestations.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
1531503578
ISBN-13
9781531503574
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18057273870

Product Key Features

Author
Vanessa Smith
Publication Name
Toy Stories : Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr878.C5
Reviews
An invigorating stereoscopic investigation of Victorian literature and its psychic realities through Anna Freud's and Melanie Klein's competing, complementary understandings of the child. Smith rejects easy gestures of repair, education, and development to offer a reverse genealogy where violent toy stories emerge as twisted object lessons, perverse figures for character, and theatrical scenes of regression. A serious contribution to scholarship on the child, on Klein, and to recent criticism that stays with bad feeling. ---Adam Frank, The University of British Columbia, Vanessa Smith's Toy Stories brilliantly dismantles the myth of childhood innocence, perhaps even dearer to the early twenty-first century than to the Victorians. It offers us a theory of the sadistic child as, startlingly, a portrait of both the nineteenth-century novelist and the modern 'adult.' This audaciously original book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian fiction and in the stories we continue to tell ourselves about what it means to grow up. ---Joseph Litvak, Tufts University, Smith's recovery of the toy stories that were hiding in plain sight within nineteenth-century novels is a thrill. One finishes this original and humane study with a new understanding of what character, realism, and narrative were for Dickens, the Brontës, and Eliot, as well as a new understanding of the novel form's relationship to the project of maturation. The object lessons of the bildungsroman were, as we learn here from a wise and generous tutor, shadowed all along by the object relations that are made manifest in childhood scenes of rough and aggressive play. ---Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University, Vanessa Smith's Toy Stories brilliantly dismantles the myth of childhood innocence, perhaps even dearer to the early twenty-first century than to the Victorians. It offers us a theory of the sadistic child as, startlingly, a portrait of both the nineteenth-century novelist and the modern "adult." This audaciously original book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian fiction and in the stories we continue to tell ourselves about what it means to grow up. ---Joseph Litvak, Tufts University, Toy Stories is a tremendous contribution both to psychoanalytic literary criticism and to thing theory. ---T. J. Lustig, The Review of English Studies, This in-depth analysis provides some intriguing insights and a new approach to classic literature. . . Highly recommended.
Table of Content
Preface : A Toy Is Being Beaten ix Introduction : Child's Play 1 1 Proper Objects 27 2 Possible Persons 54 3 Our Plays 82 4 Bildung Blocks 110 Conclusion : Toy Stories 137 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Works Cited 189 Index 205
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Children's Studies, Semiotics & Theory
Lccn
2023-023731
Dewey Decimal
823.8093523
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Literary Criticism, Social Science

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