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.
- 258 pages
- English
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Adulthood in Children's Literature
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note to the Reader
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Defining Adulthood in Childrenās Literature
- 2. Grown-up Children? The Adult Protagonist in Childrenās Literature
- 3. Hair, Hair, Everywhere: The Adult Body in Childrenās Literature
- 4. The Disdainful Adult: Childism in Childrenās Literature
- 5. From Writerās Block to Wonderful Friend: Adult Writers as Characters in Childrenās Books
- 6. Second Childhoods: Elderly Adults in Childrenās Literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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