Böcker i Children's Literature and Culture-serien

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

With the wide variety of formats and products associated with Beatrix Potter's classic The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the author raises questions about the impact of these developments on young readers.

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.

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

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.

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.

This work examines how the Holocaust is represented in fiction for children and young adults.

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'.

Suitable for students and scholars of children's literature, this book examines Le Guin's fiction for various ages.

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.

Examines the fundamental themes which inform our understanding of 'the teenager', which emerge in both literary and cultural contexts, and asks whether parallel realities and identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive.

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.

Exploring the way food is used to seduce, and coerce within children's literature, and its readers, this book tackles questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction. It coves topics such as childhood obesity and anorexia, and demonstrates how this literature attempts to regulate childhood eating practices.

Studies a large variety of children's literature written in English between 1867 and 1911. This title reveals a distinct interest in questions of national unity and identity among children's writers of the day. It explores the influence of American and British authors on the shaping of Canadian identity.

A study that examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature. It elucidates the cultural content of Carroll's work and situates the Alice books in relation to Carroll's juvenilia, his letters, photographs of children and his attempt to combine children's and adult literatures.

Explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. This book examines issues regarding colonialism and the politics of representation.

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.

Juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined, defined, and dealt with their outsider status - whether orphaned, homeless, refugee, victims of abuse, or exploited - and how processes of economic, social, or political impoverishment are sustained in regimes of power and authority.

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.

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.

The figure of the child as an emblem of beleaguered innocence became central to the Victorian fictive project. This title examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates.

Gives an account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the millennium. This work explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern 'consumer' childhood of Dr Spock and television.

Explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. This collection of fourteen essays presents a basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization.

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.