Masculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928 : A Critical Study Of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne by Wynn William Yarbrough (original) (raw)

An impulse choice on my part to read and review, this book is about how children's literature reveals much about the social forces at work in an era similar to our own turbulent times. I personally can see some similarities at work in the world which parallel the perceived collapse of the British Empire during the transition of the Victorian era (Wilde, Kipling) into the Edwardian era (Potter, Grahame) and further into the reign of George V (Milne) at the turn of the last century. This cultural identity crisis of British notions of masculinity was highlighted by writers at the time, and this Imperial loss of sel is apparent in the anthropomorphised children's fiction of these four writers. http://www.whenthenewsstops.org/2013/01/masculinity-in-childrens-animal-stories.html