The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's FictionPeter 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. |
Contents
Peter Pan and Freud | 12 |
Rousseau and Alan Garner | 42 |
Peter Pan and Literature for the Child | 66 |
Peter Pan and Commercialisation of the Child | 87 |
Peter Pan Language and the State | 115 |
Other editions - View all
The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction Jacqueline Rose Limited preview - 1993 |
The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction Jacqueline Rose Limited preview - 1984 |
The Case of Peter Pan: or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction Jacqueline Rose Limited preview - 1994 |
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