258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British... Read more
Introduction 1. The Sanctuary Topos 2. The Green Topos 3. The Roadway Topos 4. The Lapsed Topos 5. Applications: John Masefield’s The Box of Delights (1935), Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (1967) and Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now (2004)
Biography
Jane Suzanne Carroll lectures in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests include landscape, children's literature, picture books, and material culture in literature. She has published articles on Susan Cooper, J.R.R Tolkien, children's ghost stories, and children's fantasy.
