Kidnapped Romance:

From Walter Scott to C. S. Lewis

Authors

  • Elsie B. Michie Louisiana State University, Louisiana

Keywords:

children, history, inheritance, kidnapping, C. S. Lewis, maturation, modernity, romance, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, time

Abstract

Tracing a genealogy that runs from Walter Scott to Robert Louis Stevenson to C. S. Lewis, this article shows how stories about the kidnapping of a child become central to the fantasy of recouping a time outside the modern, progressive movement of history.

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Published

2023-02-10

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012): Special Issue: The Child in Neo-Victorian Arts and Discourse: Renegotiating 19th Century Concepts of Childhood

Section

Articles