Bücher der Reihe Children's Literature and Culture

A study of Diana Wynne Jones' work. This book examines her critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. It is useful to those studying fantasy and children's literature.

This book studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a forty year period in Britain. Examples range from new interactive displays in museums to historical re-enactment and the teaching of 'living history'.

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.

Focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature from Mrs Sherwood's Evangelical text of 1818 "The History of the Fairchild Family" to Jacqueline Wilson's social reality novels, interrogating the idea that portrayals of family in children's literature have changed dramatically.

Argues 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'.

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children¿s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life..

This work examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language and narrative.

Offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms' tales. This book traces the role of the translator and the impact of translations on the history of English-language children's literature from the ninth century onwards.

Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and "Little Women".

Looking at myths, legends, fables, folk and fairy tales, fractured tales, fictional stories, and nonfiction from 1500 to the present, the author identifies and analyzes the cultural, social, and scientific knowledge embedded in and imparted through the image of the wolf in over 250 books.

This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.

Explores how the concept of childhood in the Victorian era was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as contemporary pedagogical and medical writing.

Dicusses the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. This book covers topics such as intervisuality, twist endings, autobiographical narration, and metaliterary awareness in picturebooks. It also examines the narrative challenges of first-person narratives.

Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and DC Comics, this book explores ethnic, national, and heroic identities. It examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children's literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Extends the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross.

Explores representations of modern technology in contemporary science fiction for young people. This book exposes the anti-technological bias existing within a genre usually associated with celebrating technology, and suggests that this bias is a form of resistance to the face of childhood and technology's contribution to this change.

In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the canon of childrens literature.

Explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children's literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. This book investigates the East German censorship machinery, showing that there is a close correlation between the socialist ideology propagated by the regime.

Proposes theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States.

Offers a fresh system of categorization for a differentiated description of children's literature. This book analyzes the field and articulates its key definitions, terms, and concepts. It discusses the system of symbols, norms, concepts, and discourses that have evolved during the past two centuries in children's literature.

Exposes the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, the authors reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors.

Shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power. This book reveals how cultural discourses influence and are influenced by literary works, but how relevant the study of death is to adolescent fiction - the literature of 'becoming'.

Beginning with a broad overview of crossover fiction in Britain, this book offers readings of leading British crossover authors, including J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and Mark Haddon. This book discusses the growing popularity of children's classics for adult readers, with a special focus on C S Lewis.

Looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, the author demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the cultural capital of 'Shakespeare', and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.