Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415636667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 202 str.

Debra Mitts-Smith

Opis

The wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children's literature. Mitts-Smith analyzes visual images of the wolf in children's books published in Western Europe and North America from 1500 to the present.

Recenzje

"Both scholars and environmentalists will be enlightened by this nuanced examination of a misunderstood creature and its impact in both the literary and natural worlds."
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Spis treści

List of Figures Series Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Wolf as Predator 2: Wolf as Social Being 3: Wolf Undone 4: Wolf as Canine 5: Hunted and Endangered 6: Feral Children and Tame Wolves 7: Transcending Literature Bibliography Index

O autorze

Debra Mitts-Smith teaches children’s and young adult literature at the University of Illinois. She has Master’s degrees in French and Library and Information Science and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Her publications include articles in Princeton University Library Chronicle and Library Trends, and a book chapter in From Colonialism to the Contemporary: Intertextual Transformation in World Children’s and Youth Literature. Debra and her husband Marschall live in Minnesota with their three dogs, five cats, and eight ducks.