Children's Literature Products

By Ariane M. Balizet

A modern-day　Taming of the Shrew　that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from　Twelfth Night　sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

By Raphael E. Rogers

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books…

Paperback – 2019-12-03
Routledge

Edited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah Elizabeth Maier

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children…

Hardback – 2019-11-27
Routledge
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

By Michelle Elleray

Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume…

Hardback – 2019-11-11
Routledge
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

By Kate G. Harper

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the…

Hardback – 2019-11-08
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

By Graham Anderson

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor’s New…

Paperback – 2019-11-07
Routledge

By Carrie Hintz

Children’s Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children’s literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated. Positioned within the wider field of…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
Routledge
The New Critical Idiom

By Sandra Dinter

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D.…

Hardback – 2019-10-25
Routledge
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

By Ann Swinfen

The modern fantasy novel might hardly seem to need a defence, but its position in contemporary literature in the 1980s was still rather ambivalent. Many post-war writers had produced highly successful fantasy novels, some phenomenal publishing successes had occurred in the field, and an increasing…

Hardback – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction

By Jane S. Bakerman, Mary Jean DeMarr

Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles. The years 1961 to 1981 were set as boundaries for this volume because the author’s initial…

Hardback – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction

By Lorraine Kerslake

Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature…

Paperback – 2019-10-17
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities

By Joan L. Knickerbocker, James A. Rycik

Now in its second edition, this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in…

Paperback – 2019-09-11
Routledge