1st Edition
Voracious Children Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature
By Carolyn Daniel
Copyright 2006
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but also its readers. There are a number of gripping questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction that immediately arise: why are feasting fantasies so prevalent, especially in the British classics? What exactly... Read more
Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: You Are What You Eat: Food and Cultural Identity Chapter Two: Have you been a Good Girl? Manners and Mores at Tea-Time Chapter Three: Sweet Dreams and Food Fetishes Chapter Four: The Land of Milk and Honey: Representing the Mother Chapter Five: The Wicked Witch: A Pathological Image of Mother Chapter Six: Hairy on the Inside: From Cannibals to Pedophiles Chapter Seven: The Age of Disgust: Rude Books for Rude Boys Chapter Eight: Disorderly Eating: A Taste for Control Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Carolyn Daniel teaches children's literature at Monah University. This is her first book.
