Children's Literature and Culture

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1. Soon Come Home to This Island

   West Indians in British Children's Literature

   By Karen Sands-O'Connor

   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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. New Directions in Picturebook Research

   Edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950

   The Age of Adolescence

   By Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile"...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Reading Victorian Schoolrooms

   Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

   By Elizabeth Gargano

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Irish Children's Literature and Culture

   New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

   Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Valerie Coghlan

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Children's Book Business

   Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century

   By Lissa Paul

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In The Children’s Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick’s1805 product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the context of Marjorie Moon’s 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research

   Literary and Sociological Approaches

   By Hans-Heino Ewers

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international use,...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Crossover Picturebooks

   A Genre for All Ages

   By Sandra Beckett

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

   By Kirsten Stirling

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Empire's Children

    Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books

    By M. Daphne Kutzer

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge