Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children's and Adolescent Literature and Culture Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Gender and Generation in Southeast Asian Agrarian Transformations The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations, whether in the form of large-scale corporate land acquisition or... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 In this study, Ferrall and 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." RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Soon Come Home to This Island Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World Though popular opinion would have us see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us... RRP: $114.10 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children's literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why... RRP: $102.82 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Crossover Novel "Highly recommended" by ChoiceWhile crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Relentless Progress Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack... RRP: $100.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children's literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children's literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual "outsider" children to explore how Western culture has imagined, defined, and dealt with various marginalized children, whether orphans, homeless, refugees, or victims of abuse. RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Understanding Children's Literature Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from... RRP: $110.34 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Comparative Children's Literature Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period - which set out from the idea of a world republic of childhood - to modern comparative criticism. RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Space and Place in Children's Literature, 1789 to the Present Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The... RRP: $114.10 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature. RRP: $413.95 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional... RRP: $100.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children's literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Fairy Tale One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of... RRP: $102.82 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Joyce's Critics RRP: $69.70 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Nevertheless, characters in Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf intend to host these improper... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Into the Closet Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children's fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Once Upon a Time in a Different World Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children's Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children's literature from the margins to the forefront of literary... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Voracious Children Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but also its readers. There are a number of gripping questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Brown Gold Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find - if, indeed,... RRP: $131.67 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Making of the Modern Child This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late 18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Multiracial Identity in Children's Literature Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the US, and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume examines representative children's... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Crossover Fiction In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study... RRP: $413.95 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many... RRP: $124.13 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added My Granny Says My Granny Says "Good Morning" is an acknowledgement that our words have power and life to everyone we interact with. Two simple words like Good and Morning can be powerful enough to transform someone's day from bad to great... RRP: $18.28 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Robber with a Witch's Head The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes. RRP: $116.61 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Children's Literature and the Posthuman An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children's literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Picturebooks This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA. The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation 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... RRP: $413.95 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added More Words about Pictures This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry... RRP: $122.89 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Critical History of French Children's Literature These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children's literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Enterprising Youth "Recommended" by ChoiceEnterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children's perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance RRP: $56.39 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either... RRP: $126.65 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Children's Literature and Capitalism After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Child in British Literature The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and... RRP: $121.54 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Concordance to Conrad's The Secret Agent Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate... RRP: $87.77 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Concordances to Conrad's Tales of Unrest and Tales of Hearsay Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series. By looking at the word frequency table, the user will find how many times the word occurs in the work. The verbal index tells at what page and line number the word occurs. By looking... RRP: $87.77 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of... RRP: $60.22 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Widening World of Children's Literature Acknowledgements Introduction The Imprisoning Image An Ordered Universe Of Rabbit-Holes and Secret Gardens 'Shivering in the Midst of Chaos' Conclusion Bibliography Index RRP: $183.11 Add to Cart The item has been added
