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Tuerk, Richard

 
9781476680620: Rebirth in the Life and Works of Beatrix Potter
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1476680620 ISBN 13 : 9781476680620
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2020

Synopsis

This work traces the concepts of initiation, transformation and rebirth though Beatrix Potter's personal writings and her children's fiction. Her letters and journals reveal attempts to escape from what she called her "unloved birthplace" and her overbearing parents. Potter felt that her life culminated in her forties, when she was, in effect, reborn through marriage as Mrs. William Heelis, a farmer raising Herdwick sheep and buying land for the National Trust.

From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, through some of the last, such as The Fairy Caravan and The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, central characters undergo processes of initiation during which they mature toward adulthood. The most successful ones move from being helpless children to more mature creatures on their way to independence, while others experience no change or even regression.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Tuerk is a professor emeritus of literature and languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has written books about Henry David Thoreau and L. Frank Baum.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476680620
ISBN 13 
9781476680620
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
217
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