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Vallone, a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University, combines readings of children’s literature with social history

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问题    Vallone, a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University, combines readings of children’s literature with social history (she has written a lively book about Queen Victoria’ s girlhood). She gives a bold reading of Tom Thumb’ s multiple appearances in 18th and 19th-century literature.
   【T1】Entering palaces, circuses, music halls and world fairs, Vallone records the ways in which princes, explorers and performers collected people who were physically extraordinary and put them on show for public recreation. In 1626 the Duke of Buckingham staged a banquet for the young queen, Henrietta Maria; its many courses included an enormous pastry from which, just as in "Tom Thumb", a child sprang: Jeffrey Hudson, who, at the age of seven, was 18 inches tall. The queen was pleased with her new toy. 【T2】In Van Dyck’ s painting of them together, on Hudson’ s shoulder perched a pet monkey; the queen, a giantess in a picture hat, absently caresses the animal as she looks out at us loftily. In other portraits of this kind, Vallone writes, a black page plays a similar role as foil and "exotic other", and she suggests that Van Dyck’ s painting "of the pretty dwarf as pet is clearly a portrait of the dwarf as apish or not quite human". 【T3】This doesn ’t convince me: the tiny child, who grew into a tiny man, embodied a singular wonder, and was a collectible just like a seashell, or indeed a white peacock, a gift for someone who has everything.
   Her book is illustrated by good intentions, as it tacks between children’ s books and illustration, art, social history and theories of pedagogy. 【T4】She traverses highly sensitive terrain, where many of today’ s most agitative issues—race, gender, age, reproduction technologies, disability and fatness—lie thornily around. The results are lopsided: at times highly detailed, at others sketchy, at times defiant, at others compliant with current ideas of politeness. 【T5】Tracking the way historical attitudes to bodily difference have changed, she hopes for more tolerance and less mockery of the kind the gang in Mazzetti’ s film so indiferently expressed. But her hopefulness feels strained. Commodifying bodies for entertainment and spectacle hasn ’t come to an end, and the politics of stigmatisation are raging.
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答案她穿越了高度敏感的地带，那里有许多当今最激动人心的问题——种族、性别、年龄、生殖技术、残疾和肥胖——棘手且悬而未决。
解析 句中包含where引导的非限定性定语从句，先行词为highly sensitive terrain，翻译时可用“那里”代替；句子中出现了两个破折号，都是用来解释说明issue的，故直接翻译即可。agitative意为“煽动性的”；thornily意为“棘手地”。
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