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  • - Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood
    av Sue Walsh
    730 - 1 830,-

    Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'. This book challenges the division between 'children's' and 'adult' literature.

  • - Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
    av Monica Flegel
    810 - 2 036,-

    Offers an interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. This book examines the emergence of child abuse as a subject of legal and social concern in England.

  • av Jenny Holt
    756 - 2 036,-

    Argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional, biographical, and journalistic work, had a role to play in the development of social perceptions of adolescence and in forming ideas of how young people should be educated to become citizens in an age of increasing democracy.

  • - Beliefs, Cultures, Practices
    av Jill Shefrin
    746 - 2 116,-

    Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century.

  • av Shih-Wen Chen
    756 - 2 546,-

    In her exploration of China in British children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen considers travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories and periodicals to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination.

  • av Anna Green
    626 - 2 186,-

    States that the 19th-century representations of childhood and adolescence - in paintings, various forms of visual culture, and in diverse written discourses of the period - are critical for understanding modernity. This book contains chapters structured according to such themes as parent-child relations, modes of discipline, work, and others.

  • - From Snow White to WALL-E
    av David Whitley
    676 - 2 116,-

    Reflects the advanced developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, "WALL-E". This title examines a range of Disney's feature animations, in which images of wild nature are central to the narrative.

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    2 036,-

    Adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" novels and their filmic adaptations. This title examines "Twilight's" debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; and issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea.

  • av Jackie C. Horne
    926 - 2 070,-

    How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, this book argues that this shift can be understood by looking to the discipline of history.

  • - Childlore, Media and the Playground
    av Dr. Chris Richards
    2 100,-

    Conceived to explore the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions: that children's play is dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games.

  • av Kristine Moruzi
    860 - 2 100,-

    By analysing the competing discourses within girls' periodicals, this book demonstrates how they were able to frame feminine behaviour in ways that both reinforced and redefined the changing role of girls in nineteenth-century society while also allowing girl readers the opportunity to respond to these definitions.

  • - Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s
    av Lucy Pearson
    790 - 2 036,-

    Pearson examines British children's literature during the period widely regarded as a 'second golden age', giving particular attention to children's book publishing. Making use of archival resources, she explores the careers of influential children's book editors.

  • - Childlore, Media and the Playground
     
    736,-

    Conceived to explore the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions: that children's play is dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games.

  • - Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies
    av Helen May, Baljit Kaur & Larry Prochner
    926 - 2 140,-

    Examining the experiences of very young 'native' children in three British colonies, the authors focus on the shared as well as unique aspects of the colonial experience in infant schools across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India. Informed by archival research.

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    1 896,-

    Focusing on dystopian novels featuring a female protagonist, this collection explores the liminal nature of a young woman contending with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. Essays on writers that include Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Roth.

  • - Reclaiming the Outcast
    av Elaine Lomax
    1 896,-

    Respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. This book examines Stretton's writing for children and adults.

  • av Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field & Malini Roy
    686 - 2 290,-

    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.

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