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Brown, Christopher Kevin.

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Knowing children: Performative representations of childhood in nineteenth-century painting and the novel (France, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Sir John Everett Millais, William Adolphe Bouguereau).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Knowing children: Performative representations of childhood in nineteenth-century painting and the novel (France, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Sir John Everett Millais, William Adolphe Bouguereau)./
Author:	Brown, Christopher Kevin.
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-07, Section: A, page: 2698.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9979320
ISBN:	0599853905

Knowing children: Performative representations of childhood in nineteenth-century painting and the novel (France, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Sir John Everett Millais, William Adolphe Bouguereau).
Brown, Christopher Kevin.

Knowing children: Performative representations of childhood in nineteenth-century painting and the novel (France, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Sir John Everett Millais, William Adolphe Bouguereau). - 171 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-07, Section: A, page: 2698.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000.

My dissertation examines the recurring figure of the "knowing child" in the novels of Charles Dickens and Emile Zola and in the paintings of Sir John Everett Millais and William Adolphe Bouguereau. The vast popularity of these four authors/artists combined with their nearly obsessive deployment of disturbingly uninnocent children characters suggests that provocatively representing children satisfied some form of desire in the reading/viewing public (both then and now). The children in these works are unstable subjects that are simultaneously coded as children---by their physicality, their language, and their rights before the law---and as adults---by their knowledge of sex, commerce, and death.

ISBN: 0599853905Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Knowing children: Performative representations of childhood in nineteenth-century painting and the novel (France, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Sir John Everett Millais, William Adolphe Bouguereau).
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520 $a I argue that this instability serves as a site of disruption to the bourgeois hegemonic values that these texts/paintings have long been thought to espouse. The power exercised by these children often drives the narrative, yet almost by definition children are supposed to be powerless. I attempt to reconcile this contradiction by asserting that the power of the child resides in his/her ability to traverse between the privileges of innocence and the knowledge of dominant adult power structures of sex and money. Furthermore, representing the child affords a unique opportunity to address a myriad of ideological issues like taboo sexual desires, nostalgia for (imaginary?) innocence, and the technical difficulties of an adult trying to recreate a child's perspective (via language in texts, or gestures and expressions in painting).
520 $a These issues are not simply rescued from the dustbin of history for scholarly posterity; instead, they remain pertinent and ideologically charged issues today. One needs only to read the newspaper to hear of JonBenet or Elian Gonzales or the Htoo brothers in Thailand to discover the same discourse still at play. We have evolved little from the nineteenth-century's insistence that there is a child-adult binarism that functions as an either/or equation. I conclude that only through reconstructing this model into a more elastic structure can we make progress in representing, and ultimately raising, children.
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