Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

This study enhances our understanding of katabasis, as well as the intersections between adult and children's literature in English and French, by ...

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts in an era in which visual texts are perceived as a dominant perc...

Movable books are an innovative area of childrens publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history ...

This book visits contemporary British childrens and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within t...

This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts...

This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in childrens literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central...

From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern ...

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-c...

In this new monograph, author Debra Dudek defines a new era of vampire texts in which vampires have moved from their iconic dark, feared, often sed...

Despite the fame Ted Hughess poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his childrens literature.This book identif...

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter seri...

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of plac...

A substantial new edition of the popular Opening the Box of Delights by Philip W. Errington, released for Christmas 2024 to mark the 40th anniversa...

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students literaci...

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the ninetee...

How children and childrens literature helped build Americas empire Americas empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentiet...

Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, ...

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusai...

A collection of political talesfirst published in British workers magazinesselected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn t...

Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty antho...

Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty antho...

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and ...

In contemporary Western society, childhood appears more protected than ever to the casual onlooker. Yet, we are increasingly fascinated by narrativ...

Contributions by Ann Mulloy Ashmore, Rudine Sims Bishop, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Jennifer Brannock, Carolyn J. Brown, Ramona Caponegro, Lorinda Cohoo...

Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children's rights to participation and self-determination a...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chrono...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the ye...

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand childrens literature, based on...

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand childrens literature, based on...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume trac...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume expl...