Charles Kingsley's children's novelThe Water-Babies (WB), written in the spring and summer
of 1862, is a politically anxious text. In this essay I argue that although The Water-Babies' …

In this study, I consider five of the most eminent children's novels of the Golden Age period,
1860-1920, The Water-Babies by Rev. Charles Kingsley, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland …

This thesis examines the effect of different sets of illustrations on the meaning of Charles
Kingsley's The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (1863). In this thesis, I provide …

Victorians were worried about dirt. With the rise of industrialism in the first quarter of the
century and billows of polluting smoke that complemented this growth, it was difficult to …

The effort to define the child in children's literature often results in the imposition of a binary
structure: this, not that. Such categorization restricts the understanding of the fictional child …

My dissertation traces the legacy of the moral tale, a genre of didactic children's literature
popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the Victorians grew up reading …