Children's Literature Products

Edited by Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The…

Hardback – 2017-09-22 
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Children's Literature and Culture

By Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between…

Hardback – 2017-09-21 
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Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by John Stephens

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia,…

Hardback – 2017-09-13 
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Routledge Literature Companions

Edited by Reidar Aasgaard, Marcia Bunge, Merethe Roos

This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Although some books have been written about the history of childhood…

Hardback – 2017-09-11 
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

By Maria Nikolajeva

Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and…

Paperback – 2017-09-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Children's Literature

By Joseph Bristow

Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain…

Paperback – 2017-09-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Children's Literature

By J. S. Bratton

Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it…

Paperback – 2017-09-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Children's Literature

By P. W. Musgrave

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine in…

Paperback – 2017-09-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Children's Literature

Edited by Allison Giffen, Robin L. Cadwallader

This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism, and reform to investigate texts written in North America about girls, for girls, and by girls.…

Hardback – 2017-08-29 
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith, Elizabeth Bullen

This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialization, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to…

Hardback – 2017-08-28 
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Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Ralf Schneider, Sandra Dinter

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child…

Hardback – 2017-07-31 
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

By Elisabeth Wesseling

While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on…

Hardback – 2017-07-28 
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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present