Space and Place in Children's Literature, 1789 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780367880019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 266 str.

Maria Sachiko Cecire; Hannah Field; Malini Roy

Opis

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The contributors, who include Philip Pullman discussing his relationship to space and locale, analyze work

Spis treści

Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play

Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults

1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt

2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh Barai

Part 2 Real-World Places

3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano

4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi

5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD  Elzette Steenkamp

Part 3 Traversing the Imaginary

6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire

7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet  Ruth Feingold

8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot Stafford

Part 4 Book Space

9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field

10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine Renaud

Epilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman

O autorze

Maria Sachiko Cecire is Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of the Experimental Humanities concentration at Bard College, USA; Hannah Field is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex, UK; Kavita Mudan Finn is a visiting assistant professor at Southern New Hampshire University, USA; Malini Roy is a freelance writer and editor in Germany.