A Shared Passion for Nonsense: Laura E. Richards and Margaret Atwood by Michaela Keck

“…Richards and Margaret Atwood regarding their shared passion for literary nonsense. I argue that reading Richards’s and Atwood’s nonsense alongside each other highlights the continuity of nonsense’s characteristic duality of subversion and dominance as well as the ongoing social and sexual violence that surrounds their young female protagonists, whose (sexual) agency challenges constructions of “childhood innocence.” …”
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