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- Title
'The End Lies in the Beginning': Embracing Childhood and Old Age in Susan Hill's Ghost Novels The Small Hand and Dolly.
- Authors
Miquel-Baldellou, Marta
- Abstract
Susan Hill's novels The Small Hand (2010) and Dolly (2012) evoke Victorian tropes of age inversion drawn from children's literature and ghost narratives that undermine the boundaries established between childhood and old age. Given their neo-Victorian features, Hill's two novels engage in dialogue with these Victorian tropes, but, in comparison, Hill's spectral entities literally denote that these life stages are interrelated and should be embraced.
- Subjects
OLD age; CHILDREN'S literature; CHILDREN'S drawings; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
International Research in Children's Literature, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
1755-6198
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/ircl.2021.0413