Modern Fantasy Child of Book

Today we're obsessed with children, almost worshipping them in our family albums, vacation splurges, and holiday giving, anxious for their safety and future, but also fearful of and vindictive toward them when they don't fit our image of innocence. Traversing the last hundred years, historian Gary Cross reveals the origins of these deep and contradictory emotions in the modern ideas of the cute and the cool. While child-rearing experts insisted that parents shelter and nurture the child, popular and commercial culture encouraged a contrasting view of innocence: in the 20th century, adults evoked wonder in children by presenting them with a fantastic new world of sweets and toys, and stories. In images of the naughty but nice Buster brown and coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans created a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays like Christmas and Halloween became celebrations of innocence. All this reflected a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also liberated adults from their rational worlds of work and tedium with material life. The problem was that the cute turned into the "cool" when children embraced their parents' gift of fantasy and unrestricted desire and rebelled against wondrous innocence by entering their own imaginary worlds of the anti-cute. Over the course of the 20th century makers of movies, comic books, and video games introduced growing children to the often violent, and very commercialized, worlds of the cool, but parents were unwitting pied pipers in this process. Over and over, adults tried to reign in these threats to childhood innocence by trying to shelter children from adult media and dangerous addictions, but with only limited success. Theappeal of the cute has ironically been the source of a deep ambiguity toward children and the childlike.

What is the meaning of Peter Pan -- not for J. M. Barrie, but for the thousands who have continued to purchase for children version after version of the story and who have faithfully attended the productions of the play? What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part? These are some of the questions this book attempts to answer. Shifting attention away from J. M. Barrie, the originator of Peter Pan, it asks instead what is the nature of our own desire or investment in this phenomenon of our culture. In the course of her investigation, Jacqueline Rose identifies behind Peter Pan a fantasy of childhood which she traces back through the history of children's fiction, forward to modern critical commentaries on children's writing, and into some of the most contemporary writers of books for children today. Originally published in 1984, The Case of Peter Pan is now widely available in the United States for the first time. Peter Pan, Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a new introductory essay written especially for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetishof our times.

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