Candid Lying and Precocious Storytelling in Victorian Literature and Psychology
(2016)
Journal Article
Laing, R. (2016). Candid Lying and Precocious Storytelling in Victorian Literature and Psychology. Journal of Victorian Culture, 21(4), 500-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2016.1233904
By comparing Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess (1905) with contemporaneous psychology and canonical literature, this article suggests that children’s literature complicates our understanding of nineteenth-century discourse about precocity.... Read More about Candid Lying and Precocious Storytelling in Victorian Literature and Psychology.