Men in Wonderland - The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3(13) Of Prisons and Ungrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Lost Self of Childhood 16(30) The Ideal Girl in Industrial England 46(48) The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's ``Lost Jewels'' 94(35) Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement 129(25) A ``New `Cry of the Children''': Legislating Innocence in the 1880s 154(41) Appendix Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 195(4) Notes 199(32) Works Cited 231(12) Index 243