Children's Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

   Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

   By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature

   By Madelyn Travis

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature

   Ghost Images

   By Anastasia Ulanowicz

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Rudyard Kipling

   Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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