Abstract
In the wake of the diverse and diverting approaches to Peter Pan that have developed around his centenary, this essay sympathises with the recent call of some commentators to refocus discussion on the narratives of J.M. Barrie and on Peter himself. By doing so, it clarifies a protagonist who – in his origins, history, and character – is consistently defined by his resistance to definition as a “Betwixt-and-Between”. This essay explores this description by looking anew at the troublesome links between Peter, Wendy, and ideas of paternity (with particular respect to Captain Hook and Mr Darling); and arguing that these combine to disturb but ultimately reconstitute Peter’s narrative status as indefinition defined.
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