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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1-Introduction: Emerging Identities and the Practice of Possibility

2-Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: Disrupting Dominant Values and Cultural Identity in Children's Literature

3- Gender, Abjection, and Coming of Age: Games, Dolls, and Stories

4-Constructing the Self: Connection and Separation

5-Giving Voice to Abjection: Experience and Empathy

6-Engendering Abjection's Sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

7-Embodying Herethics: Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses

Conclusion-Abjection's Sublime: Imagining Love

Notes

Bibliography.

About the Author

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Ruth Y. Jenkins is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Reclaiming Myths of Power: The Victorian Spiritual Crisis and Women Writers and numerous articles on Victorian literature and culture, children's literature, feminist, cultural, and writing theory.