This book is a collection of essays on twentieth century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeals to both audiences.
This book is a collection of essays on twentieth century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeals to both aud...
Placing classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain, this work focuses on the themes of patriotism and imperialism from 1895 to about 1945. The book begins with Rudyard Kipling and ends with Arthur Ransome, examining the crucial years from the height of Britain's empire at the end of the 19th century to its waning years prior to World War II. It explores the way that British imperialist tendencies lingered into children's texts well into the 1980s. Other writers examined include Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbitt, A.A. Milne and Hugh Lofting, all...
Placing classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain, this work focuses on the themes of patriotism and im...
In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the production of children's literature. The volume includes a comprehensive list of canonical titles for reference.
In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influen...
This book bridges the fields of Children s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of recapitulation, which held that ontogeny (the individual s development) repeats phylogeny (the evolution of the species), underlies the strategies of this corpus. Italian fairy tales, novels, poems, and short stories imply that the personal development of the child corresponds to and hence...
This book bridges the fields of Children s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children s books forged a unified na...
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series-to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative heterosexuality, yet this inherent paradox runs throughout...
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-inclu...
This work examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children's novels published in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America.
This work examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and India...
This is a book-length study which explores the intersections of children's literature and defines historical moments in colonial India. Goswami proposes that British, Anglo-Indian, and Bengali children's literature respond to five key historical events.
This is a book-length study which explores the intersections of children's literature and defines historical moments in colonial India. Goswami propos...
This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children & young adults. Looking at literature published within the last 30-40 years, Wilson explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning & rewriting the past according to modern social & political ideological assumptions.
This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children & young adults. Looking at literature...
The interdisciplinary approach of this volume considers 19th-century Italian literature, 19th-century French literature and drama, children's literature, German and Italian drama, contemporary British visual arts, and international film to explore the significance of Pinocchio in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The interdisciplinary approach of this volume considers 19th-century Italian literature, 19th-century French literature and drama, children's literatu...
