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Children's Literature and Culture

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  1. Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation

    Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness

    By Layla AbdelRahim

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Diana Wynne Jones

    The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature

    By Farah Mendlesohn

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    First published in 2005...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

    Edited by Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature

    By Lydia Kokkola

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    First published in 2003...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Twice-Told Children's Tales

    The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults

    Edited by Betty Greenway

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    First published in 2005...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  8. The Gothic in Children's Literature

    Haunting the Borders

    Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

    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 May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

    By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction

    The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity

    By Robyn McCallum

    Edited by Jack D. Zipes

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
    By Elizabeth Gargano
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  2. Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature
    By Karen Sands-O'Connor
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  3. Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
    By Giorgia Grilli
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Inventing the Child
    By John Zornado
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
    Edited by John Stephens
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  6. Children’s Literature and New York City
    Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Padraic Whyte
    To Be Published August 31st 2013
  7. Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
    Edited by Betty Greenway
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  8. Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995
    By Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  9. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
    By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  10. The Poetics of Childhood
    By Roni Natov
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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