Coming of Age in Children's Literature
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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

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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

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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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780826477576
eBook ISBN
9781441116925
Edition
1
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria
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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  4. CHAPTER 2 Philippa Pearce
  5. CHAPTER 3 Cynthia Voigt
  6. CHAPTER 4 Jan Mark
  7. Bibliography
  8. Index