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Coming of Age in Children's Literature

Name: Coming of Age in Children's Literature
ISBN: 9781441116925

Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark

Margaret Meek Spencer,

Victor Watson,

204 pages
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Coming of Age in Children's Literature

Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark

Margaret Meek Spencer,

Victor Watson,

About this book

Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?" Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.

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Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

44

COMING

OF

AGE

IN

CHILDREN'S 

LITERATURE

85.

Ibid.,

p.

168.

86.

Ibid.,

pp.

33-4.

87.

William 

Blake, 

letter

to

Dr

Trassier

(23

August 

1799) 

(1966),

Blake:

Complete

Wntings,

Oxford 

University 

Press,

p.

793.

88.

Alan 

Garner 

(1985),

Red

Shift,

Flamingo 

edition, 

William

Collins

Sons

&

Co.

Ltd.

p.

130.

89.

Ibid.,

p.

129.

90.

At

the

time

of

writing,

a

sixth 

novel

is

promised.

91.

Aidan

Chambers 

(2000),

Now

I

Know,

Red

Fox,

p.

82.

92.

Aidan 

Chambers 

(2000),

Dance

on

My

Grave,

Red

Fox,

pp.

163-4

93.

Aidan 

Chambers 

(2000),

Breaktime,

Red

Fox,

p.

138.

94.

Ibid.,

p.

7.

95.

Now

I

Know,

p.

231.

96.

Aidan 

Chambers 

(2001),

Postcards

from

No

Man's

Land,

Red

Fox,

p.

133.

97.

The

exception

is

the

kind

of

comic 

writing 

which

sees

childhood

as

slapstick.

98.

Emma 

Smith 

(1974),

No

Way

of

Telling,

The

Children's

Book 

Club,

p.

214.

Cover
Contents
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Philippa Pearce
CHAPTER 3 Cynthia Voigt
CHAPTER 4 Jan Mark
Bibliography
Index

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