Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in
works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works-Lewis
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry
James's What Maisie Knew, J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, Franz
Kafka's "The Cares of a Family Man," Richard Hughes's A High Wind
in Jamaica, Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart, and Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita-Kenneth Gross's book delves into stories that
center around the figure of a strange and dangerous child. Whether
written for adults or child readers, or both at once, these stories
all show us odd, even frightening visions of innocence. We see
these children's uncanny powers of speech, knowledge, and play, as
well as their nonsense and violence. And, in the tales, these
child-lives keep changing shape. These are children who are often
endangered as much as dangerous, haunted as well as haunting. They
speak for lost and unknown childhoods. In looking at these
narratives, Gross traces the reader's thrill of companionship with
these unpredictable, often solitary creatures-children curious
about the adult world, who while not accommodating its rules, fall
into ever more troubling conversations with adult fears and
desires. This book asks how such imaginary children, objects of
wonder, challenge our ways of seeing the world, our measures of
innocence and experience, and our understanding of time and memory.
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