Never Seen a Violet
Dinah Birch: Victorian men and girls, 6 September 2001
Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman
by Catherine Robson.
Princeton, 250 pp., £19.95, June 2001,0 691 00422 6 Show More
by Catherine Robson.
Princeton, 250 pp., £19.95, June 2001,
“... penis and have to abandon fantasies of maleness, they feel envy and a lasting sense of alienation. Catherine Robson acknowledges and dismisses Freud and Lacan as forming ‘part of the continuing mythology of the creation of interiorised selves, a mythology to which this book aims to contribute one particular narrative’. In the story ... ”