Provides a thorough history of British and North American children’s literature from the 17th century to the present day......more
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and......more
Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he......more
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Argues that fairy stories, rather than operating outside of progressive modernity, significantly contributed to the lang......more
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The Wonderful Story of Blue Beard, and His Last WifeBy George Cruikshank...more
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Rediscover nineteenth-century American children’s poetry with period illustrations. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice O......more
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American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales......more
Traversing a variety of places - real and imagined, past and present, new and as old as time - Children s Literature on ......more
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A wide-ranging and lively exploration of the questions raised by the classics of children’s fiction, both in the texts t......more
Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America, by Derek Pacheco, investigates an important moment in ......more
An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated bi......more
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Rudd explores and challenges the critical representation of the child in children s literature, looking at the child s p......more
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An essential text that provides students with a dynamic, sophisticated and controversial look at the critical representa......more
The Boy with the Big Blue Hair is a whimsical children s book about an ordinary boy, with the most extraordinary hair. T......more
This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Typical entries con......more
A fresh and dynamic New Casebook of brand new essays, edited by a leading scholar in the field, which explores The Hobbi......more
This edited collection presents new essays on Melvin Burgess and an interview with the author, introducing readers to th......more
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In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art ......more
In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art ......more
The first critical edition of the beloved classics that established Edith Nesbit as a major children s writer provides e......more
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Readings of de Man’s critique of aesthetic ideology and the strange ’materiality’ that emerges from it. This volume expl......more
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This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptual......more
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The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a r......more
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An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated bi......more
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The search for general laws and regularities in Translation Studies gained new momentum in the 1990s when Baker (1993) p......more
A nostalgic and entertaining look back through childhood nursery rhymes and stories, explanations of their origins and m......more
Traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of federally funded plays for childr......more
In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a......more
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Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlantic Engaging with recent studies of modernist journals and th......more
In the first book-length study of its kind Dickens and Race examines Dickens s complex relationship with race shaped by ......more
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Picture books for children provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation t......more
This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Typical entries con......more
Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and......more
How did Ichabod Crane and other characters from children’s literature shape the ideal of American citizenship? 2015 Hono......more
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Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for th......more
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C. S. Lewis s seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of......more
A collection of brand new critical essays which explore the work of a much-loved and internationally-renowned author of ......more
C. S. Lewis s seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of......more
This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a ......more
Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children s Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discov......more
Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors. This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intrigui......more
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Of all of the rich fairy-tale collections that exist in countries throughout the world, few are better known than those ......more
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