256 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. J. Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern 'consumer' childhood of Dr. Spock and... Read more
Introduction 1. History as Human Relationship 2. Freud, Shakespeare and Hamlet as Children's Literature 3. The Brothers Grimm: The Black Pedagogy and the Roots of Fascist Culture 4. Victorian Imperialsim and the Golden Age of Children's Literature 5. Walt Disney, Ideological Transposition and the Child 6. Maurice Sendak and the Detachment Child 7. Conclusion: The Etiology of Consumerism
Biography
John Zornado is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College .
"Inventing the Child will be an insightful read for anyone interested in children's literature and children's psychological development." -- Choice
"This book is passionate, accessible, often clever, and always irreverent discussion of the ways that child-rearing pedagogy has shaped not only children's books in the western tradition but 'the story of childhood' itself." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
