Children's Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Youth of Darkest England

   Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

   By Troy Boone

   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
2. Textual Transformations in Children's Literature

   Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations

   Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

   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
3. Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child

   Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child

   By Amberyl Malkovich

   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
4. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

   By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

   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
5. Beatrix Potter

   Writing in Code

   By M. Daphne Kutzer

   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
6. The Nation in Children’s Literature

   Nations of Childhood

   Edited by Kit Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark

   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
7. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

   Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

   Edited by Karen J. Renner

   The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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 October 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sparing the Child

    Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust

    By Harlan Bosmajian

    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