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1-10 of 95 results in Children's Literature and Culture
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Youth of Darkest England
Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about...
Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Textual Transformations in Children's Literature
Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child
Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ‘ideal’ Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children’s Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Beatrix Potter
Writing in Code
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre. Daphne Kutzer...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Nation in Children’s Literature
Nations of Childhood
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the...
Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Soon Come Home to This Island
West Indians in British Children's Literature
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black...
Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Sparing the Child
Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist....
Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Brown Gold
Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even...
Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film
Global Theories and Implications
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an...
Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature
To Be Published February 26th 2013 -
Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images
To Be Published March 10th 2013 -
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity
To Be Published April 28th 2013 -
Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature
To Be Published May 5th 2013 -
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers
To Be Published May 6th 2013 -
Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
To Be Published May 31st 2013 -
Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature
To Be Published June 29th 2013 -
Aesthetic and Cognitive Experiences in Picturebooks
To Be Published July 14th 2013 -
Children’s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg
To Be Published July 31st 2013 -
Children’s Literature and New York City
To Be Published August 31st 2013


