The Infantilisation of Indigeneity in Colonial Australia
(2022)
Book Chapter
Laing, R. (2022). The Infantilisation of Indigeneity in Colonial Australia. In R. Bryant Davies, & E. Johnson-Williams (Eds.), Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. Bloomsbury
All Outputs (5)
Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child Psychology (2019)
Book Chapter
Laing, R. (2019). Victorian Autobiography, Child Study and the Origins of Child Psychology. In B. Lightman, & B. Zon (Eds.), Victorian culture and the origin of disciplines. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429277139-9
What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child (2018)
Journal Article
Laing, R. (2018). What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child. The Henry James Review, 39(1), 96-109. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2018.0006Henry James’s What Maisie Knew represents the child Maisie’s mind as a repository for adult selfhood in the post-Darwin era. Literary and scientific studies of childhood alike endeavoured to access the innocent knowledge of the child-mind in the late... Read More about What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child.
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/10.1080/13555502.2016.1233904By 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.
The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim (2015)
Journal Article
McCloskey, R. (2015). The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim. International Research in Children's Literature, 8(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2015.0150This article uses Max Weber's model of charismatic authority to analyse the role of the adolescent protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Kim's charisma means that the radical instability he represents is highly appealing to the reader: Kim plays the... Read More about The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim.