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- Title
Unbinding the Victorian Girl: Corsetry and Neo-Victorian Young Adult Literature.
- Authors
Montz, Amy L.
- Abstract
The corset is an item of nineteenth-century women's clothing that is often contested as antifeminist, problematic, and disfiguring. However, when presented in some neo-Victorian young adult literature, particularly steampunk, the corset is rewritten as offering protection—even functioning as armor—to help shield a young woman from threats to her person and her agency.
- Subjects
CANADA; THAT Inevitable Victorian Thing (Book); JOHNSTON, E. K.; CHILDREN'S stories; NOBILITY (Social class); CHILDREN'S literature; PRINCESSES -- Fiction
- Publication
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0885-0429
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/chq.2019.0005