Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

In the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of nationality and c...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

Colonial India in Children’s Literature is the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children’s literature and defining historica...

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Conte...

This book analyzes American Indian characters and themes in young adult literature, outlining plots and evaluating content from a native perspectiv...

This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at liter...

This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the Af...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature e...

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—in...

Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Ne...

Children's literature has been taught in undergraduate classrooms since the mid-1960s and has grown to become a staple of English literature, libra...

Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison...

Children's literature has been taught in undergraduate classrooms since the mid-1960s and has grown to become a staple of English literature, libra...

The goal of the book is to investigate mediating practices used in translation of children’s and young adults’ fiction, focusing on transfer of con...

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Conte...

This first paperback edition of the seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi will be welcomed by folklorists for its informative survey of the v...

A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels   Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth ...

Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Ne...

Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature.This book ident...

This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate...

What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? T...