Early in the nineteenth century the London publishers and printsellers, S. and J. Fuller, packaged paper dolls and storybooks together in their Temple of Fancy paper doll books. This article examines the tension between the narratives of these works—typically moral tales for children in which a love of clothing is punished—and the accompanying paper dolls, which celebrate costume and dressing up. The textual morals against love of clothing are gendered in problematic ways, with female characters mortified for this flaw more readily than male characters. However, the variety of potential reading experiences offered by the form of the paper doll book, in which picture and word are separate, is viewed as a challenge to the gendered moral content of the stories. Ultimately this article argues that the form of the paper doll book sheds new light on D. F. McKenzie's (1986) ideas about how readers make meaning from texts.
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机译:十九世纪初,伦敦的出版商和印刷商S.和J. Fuller将纸娃娃和故事书包装在他们的花式寺庙纸娃娃书中。本文考察了这些作品的叙事之间的张力(通常是针对儿童的道德故事,其中对对服装的热爱应受惩罚)与随之而来的纸娃娃一起庆祝服装和装扮。反对穿衣热爱的文字道德被以有问题的方式性别化,女性角色比男性角色更容易受到这种缺陷的伤害。然而,纸娃娃书形式的图片和文字是分开的,提供了多种潜在的阅读体验,这被视为对故事性别道德内容的挑战。最终,本文认为纸娃娃书的形式为D. F. McKenzie(1986)关于读者如何从文本中表达意义的思想提供了新的启示。
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