For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen

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Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. "For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen." Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation. 40 (1), pp. 134-141.
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For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen

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AuthorGildersleeve, Jessica
Journal TitleHecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation
Journal Citation40 (1), pp. 134-141
Number of Pages8
Year2014
Place of PublicationAustralia
ISSN0311-4198
1839-4213
Web Address (URL)http://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;py=2014;vol=40;res=IELAPA;issn=0311-4198;iss=1
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Doreen repositions the battleground as a class- and emotion-bound struggle taking place over the paradoxically devalued body of the child.

KeywordsWorld War II; children; evacuation; anxiety; class
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470504. British and Irish literature
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Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2013. "The spectre and the stage: reading and ethics at the intersection of psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the gothic." Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 18 (3), pp. 99-108.
Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2010. "Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." McClinton-Temple, Jennifer (ed.) Encyclopedia of themes in literature, volume 3. New York, NY. United States. Facts on File. pp. 901-904
Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)." Wheeler, Pat (ed.) Re-reading Pat Barker. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 25-41
Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2009. "Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision." Peer English. 4, pp. 32-46.
Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing." Philament. 17 (17), pp. 1-11.
Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 10, pp. 32-38.
Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2012. "Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'." Queensland Review. 19 (2), pp. 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.23