1st Edition

Children's Literature

By Carrie Hintz Copyright 2020
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Children’s Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children’s literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated. Positioned within the wider field of adult literary, film, and television culture, this book also covers: Ideological and... Read more

Introduction

1. Definitions

2. Children's literature: early and global histories 

3. Children's literature and the political 

4. Theories and methodologies

5. Children's literature and the global and natural world

Conclusion

Biography

Carrie Hintz is Associate Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.