Children's Literature Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

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
2. Fairy Tale

   By Andrew Teverson

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale provides a detailed account of the...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults

   Brave New Teenagers

   Edited by Carrie Hintz, Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Picturebooks

   Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture

   Edited by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell, Julie McAdam

   The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of children’s literature. This book brings together the work of expert scholars from the UK, the USA and Europe to present original theoretical perspectives...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

   Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

   By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Beatrix Potter

   Writing in Code

   By M. Daphne Kutzer

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre, examining all facets...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature

   By Madelyn Travis

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
9. Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature

   Ghost Images

   By Anastasia Ulanowicz

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Rudyard Kipling

    Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green

    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge