In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the
Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the
twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second
World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress."
In the enormously popular "juvenile" literature of the period,
primarily boys' and girls' own adventure and school stories,
adolescence is acknowledged as a time of sexual awareness and yet
also of a romantic idealism that is lost with marriage, a time when
boys and girls acquire adult duties and responsibilities and yet
have not had to assume the roles of breadwinner or household
manager. The book reveals a concept of adolescence as significant
as the Romantic cult of childhood that preceded it, which will be
of interest to scholars of both children's literature and Victorian
culture.
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