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Mopsa The Fairy
Great shout-out to Kelly Hager and the Children's Literature Program in the Sunday New York Times by Bitterblue author Kristin Cashore.
What's the best book you ever read for a
school assignment?
Oh, wow!
By "school," do you mean my entire academic career? With hundreds, maybe
thousands, to choose from, I don't even know where to start. Maybe I'll look at
it from a different angle. What book was the subject of the academic paper I
found most fascinating, and am most proud of? That would be Jean Ingelow's odd
little story "Mopsa the Fairy," which I read in one my favorite-ever classes,
Victorian Children's Literature (with Dr. Kelly Hager, at Simmons College's
Center for the Study of Children's Literature). To the best of my memory, it
was the gender roles that fascinated me. I think I wrote about female
entrapment and male liberty -- "boys in flight and grounded women" -- in "Mopsa"
and in Victorian England.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/books/review/kristin-cashore-by-the-book.html?pagewanted=all
Posted by on July 9, 2012 6:58 AM