Document Type
Honors
Department
English
Abstract
Describes how recent literary scholarship has begun to interpret the themes and topics found within the children's picture books of Beatrix Potter through the lens of the code-language in Potter's secret journal, deciphered and published by Leslie Linder in 1966. Analyzes three tales from Potter's collection of picture books, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, and The Tale of Pigling Bland, to illustrate the ways these books continued to represent the social and personal observations, voicing subversive reactions to the excesses and hypocrises of Victorian culture, that Potter first began in her journal.
Recommended Citation
Bruscini, Veronica, ""So I Shall Tell You a Story:" The Subversive Voice in Beatrix Potter's Picture Books" (2008). Honors Projects. 28.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/28
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