Adulthood in Children's Literature
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Adulthood in Children's Literature

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Adulthood in Children's Literature

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781350154810
eBook ISBN
9781350049796
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Note to the Reader
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Defining Adulthood in Childrenā€™s Literature
  11. 2. Grown-up Children? The Adult Protagonist in Childrenā€™s Literature
  12. 3. Hair, Hair, Everywhere: The Adult Body in Childrenā€™s Literature
  13. 4. The Disdainful Adult: Childism in Childrenā€™s Literature
  14. 5. From Writerā€™s Block to Wonderful Friend: Adult Writers as Characters in Childrenā€™s Books
  15. 6. Second Childhoods: Elderly Adults in Childrenā€™s Literature
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index