Adulthood in Children's Literature Paperback / softback
by Associate Professor Vanessa (Associate Professor or English Literature, University of Antwer Joosen
Part of the Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
While most scholars who study children’s books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adulthood in children’s literature.
Adulthood in Children’s Literature demonstrates how books for young readers evoke adulthood as a stage in life, enacted by adult characters, and in relationship with the construction of childhood.
Employing age studies as a framework for analysis, this book covers a range of English and Dutch children’s books published from 1970 to the present. Calling upon critical voices like Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Peter Hollindale, Maria Nikolajeva and Lorraine Green, and the works of such authors as Babette Cole, Philip Pullman, Ted van Lieshout, Jacqueline Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Guus Kuijer, Joosen offers a fresh perspective on children’s literature by focusing not on the child but the adult.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781350154810
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350154810
