This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer, the Four Character Classic, writt......more
When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its "inter......more
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Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles wer......more
Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles wer......more
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak’s life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice ......more
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak’s life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice ......more
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Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of children’s literature, whose imp......more
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How do simple words and images make a children’s picture book so magical that one reading can create a cherished memory ......more
Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children’s literature as impor......more
Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children’s literature as impor......more
Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernism This innovative book examines the developm......more
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This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary......more
An examination of the role of imagination and its relationship to the divine in the stories of the Victorian author Geor......more
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Children’s literature isn’t just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of childr......more
Children’s literature isn’t just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of childr......more
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Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Leslie Elain......more
This book is based on the power of stories to support children in all areas of their lives. It examines the role narrati......more
Addresses the underlying Christian themes that run throughout C.S. Lewis’s seven fantasies about Narnia and describes ho......more
From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo--this collection of essays shows how the classics of children’s ......more
Moving beyond the postcolonial literature field’s traditional focus on the novel, this book shines a light on the "minor......more
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Das Handbuch entwirft eine Gesamt bersicht ber das Thema und fasst den Stand der KJL-Forschung zusammen. Es akzentuiert ......more
Noor Inayat Khan was the eldest child of the renowned Indian philosopher Hazrat Inayat Kahn and his American wife Ameena......more
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This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fic......more
Winner, 2022 Children’s Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children’s Literature Association Winner, 2020 W......more
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to deve......more
This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone......more
This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America’s two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 e......more
This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her ......more
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Introduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy 1. ’A detached peninsula’: infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Mart......more
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George MacDonald is generally remembered as a benevolent preacher who wrote fairy-tale books for children. Closer readin......more
2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Lan......more
Literature’s Childrenoffers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes ......more
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For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated ch......more
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’The Right Thing to Read’ A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and con......more
Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices......more
In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American ......more
Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving id......more
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascadi......more
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This book comprises studies on death in Spanish, British/American and German children’s literature, cinema and audiovisu......more
In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s wor......more
This book explores the topic of ideological manipulation in the translation of children’s literature by addressing sever......more
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Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and ......more
Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and ......more
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The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people’s interes......more
The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized c......more
During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fun......more
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Chapter 1: Reading Alcott’s Textual Childhood.- Chapter 2: ’We really lived most of it’: The Trouble with Autobiography.......more
The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some ......more
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Thanks to the success of franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, young adult literature has reached a new leve......more
Thanks to the success of franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, young adult literature has reached a new leve......more
This critical anthology renders visible the twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American traditions of the female fantas......more