{"product_id":"breaking-the-angelic-image-edith-lazaros-honig-9780313261275","title":"Breaking the Angelic Image: Woman Power in Victorian Children's Fantasy","description":"\u003cp\u003eHonig's short, pleasantly written book is a consideration of the images of women--as mothers, spinsters, girls, and supernatural women--in 19th-and early 20th-century fantasy novels for children. . . . Honig sees fantasy as a means of freeing women from the Victorian social restraints--at first, imaginatively. \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the first book-length study of nineteenth-century children's fantasy from a feminist viewpoint. Honig focuses on a number of major works that are representative of the best of their era--including such classics as \u003ci\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e by Lewis Caroll; \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Key\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Princess and the Goblin\u003c\/i\u003e, and others by George MacDonald; the works of Mary Louisa Molesworth; \u003ci\u003ePeter and Wendy\u003c\/i\u003e by James Barrie; \u003ci\u003eThe Five Children and It\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Castle\u003c\/i\u003e by Edith Nesbit. Through a close reading of these fantasies Honig demonstrates that although Victorian women were still being repressed in the home and the marketplace, the female figure in literature played a role that was quite different from the traditional stereotype of the meek, submissive wife and mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith Lazaros Honig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031326127X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313261275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Edith Lazaros Honig","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45476841554175,"sku":"9780313261275","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_546bf598-5601-4aae-803a-e70f27280dfd.jpg?v=1715918315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-the-angelic-image-edith-lazaros-honig-9780313261275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}