Plucky Lads and Succubi: Fin de Siecle Masculinity in Kim, Peter Pan and The Turn of the Screw

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  • Lucy Hamilton

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1998vol8no2art1375

Keywords:

Peter Pan, masculinity, KIm, The Turn of the Screw, Rudyard Kipling, homoeroticism, Bildungsroman, hegemonic masculinity, gender role, misogyny, J.M Barrie, Henry James

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1998-07-01

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“Plucky Lads and Succubi: Fin de Siecle Masculinity in Kim, Peter Pan and The Turn of the Screw” (1998) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 8(2), pp. 31–39. doi:10.21153/pecl1998vol8no2art1375.

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