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The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction

The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction Paperback / softback - 1992

by Jacqueline Rose

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  • Title The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction
  • Author Jacqueline Rose
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Second Edition.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-12-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780812214352
  • ISBN 9780812214352 / 0812214358
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Children - Books and reading, Peter Pan (Fictitious character)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92030533
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.912

From the rear cover

What is the meaning of Peter Pan -- not for J. M. Barrie, but for the thousands who have continued to purchase for children version after version of the story and who have faithfully attended the productions of the play? What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part?

These are some of the questions this book attempts to answer. Shifting attention away from J. M. Barrie, the originator of Peter Pan, it asks instead what is the nature of our own desire or investment in this phenomenon of our culture. In the course of her investigation, Jacqueline Rose identifies behind Peter Pan a fantasy of childhood which she traces back through the history of children's fiction, forward to modern critical commentaries on children's writing, and into some of the most contemporary writers of books for children today.

Originally published in 1984, The Case of Peter Pan is now widely available in the United States for the first time. Peter Pan, Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a new introductory essay written especially 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 a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetishof our times.