Escaping institutionality: rebellion and gendered space in Eric, or Little by Little and A Little Princess by Soyoun Kim

“…By the convention of nineteenth-century school narratives, students are supposed to grow up in the school while their characters are being molded by the standardized educational system. Eric, or Little by Little and A Little Princess both resist the very idea of linear growth that is a trope of the Bildungsroman through endowing their protagonists with the rebelliousness and outsider status of the unruly child. …”
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