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The Gothic in Children's Literature
Haunting the Borders
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very...
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950
The Age of Adolescence
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile"...
Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Diary Poetics
Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries, 1915-1962
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia...
Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
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The Gothic in Children's Literature
Haunting the Borders
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very...
Published October 18th 2009 by Routledge