1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture
Introduction
PART I
Concepts and tools
Section introduction
1 Theory
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
2 Poetics and Pedagogy
Karen Coats
3 Ethics and Historical Perspectives
Amanda K. Allen
4 Children’s Literary Geography
Björn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang
5 The Monster at the End of This Book:
Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children’s Literature
Megan L. Musgrave
6 Digital Humanities and Children’s Literature
Deanna Stover
7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children’s Literature Studies
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
PART II
Media and genres
Section introduction
8 Picturebooks
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
9 Books for Beginners
Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec
10 Magazines
Kristine Moruzi
11 Comics for Children Across Cultures
Joseph Michael Sommers
12 Children’s Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination
Deborah Stevenson
13 Nonfiction
Giorgia Grilli
14 Children’s Poetry
Michael Joseph
15 Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives
Manon van de Water
16 Film
Christine Lötscher
17 Television
Debbie Olson
18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age
Angela Colvert
PART III
Identities
Section introduction
19 Age
Vanessa Joosen
20 Gender
Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist
21 Nation and Citizenship
Sara Van den Bossche
22 Religion and Children’s Literature
Gabriele von Glasenapp
23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children’s Fiction
Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen
24 Race and Ethnicity in Children’s Literature
Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera
25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children’s Literature
Mateusz Świetlicki
26 Disability and Children’s Literature
Kimura Toshio and Yoshida Junko
PART IV
Border crossings
Section introduction
27 Translation
Emer O’Sullivan
28 Retranslation
Virginie Douglas
29 Adaptation
Anja Müller
30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland
Weronika Kostecka
31 Children’s Literature and Transnationalism
Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith
32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:
Korean and Hebrew Children’s Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century
Dafna Zur and Rachel Feldman
33 Marketing and Franchising
Naomi Hamer
34 Children’s Literature Websites and Fandom
Sara K. Day and Carrie Sickmann
PART V
Institutions
Section introduction
35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Courtney Weikle-Mills
36 Children’s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach
Emily Bruce
37 Contemporary Asian Book Publishing
Shih-Wen Sue Chen
38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children’s Book and Media Awards
Ramona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd
39 Children’s Literature in Schools
Etti Gordon Ginzburg
40 Libraries
Margaret Mackey
41 Book Clubs
Julie Fette and Anne Morey
42 Promoting Children’s Reading Internationally
Valerie Coghlan
43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children’s Literature
Andrew Zalot
Biography
Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA.
Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children’s Literature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
“As someone who has long been engaged in the study of literature, I found this companion to be both intellectually enriching and inspiring. The depth of scholarship across a wide range of topics challenges conventional views and opens new avenues for understanding how children’s literature intersects with contemporary cultural and technological developments. I believe that this collection will not only serve as a valuable reference but also spark new conversations and research ideas, particularly for those of us who are passionate about exploring how literature shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us.”
-- Enikő Nagy-Kolozsvári, Katalin Lizák
