Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. ...

Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fictio...

In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study...

Our children grow up into a world of stories—in books, on screens—but what do they make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel a...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question— Who speaks?— by examining a var...

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature,...

Cooney's large body of work for adolescents defies easy classification. She has written award-winning adventure, suspense, romance, family, mystery...

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for he...

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a ninete...

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all majo...

A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles s...

In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They ...

This volume will be a critical anthology of primary texts whose main audience was children and/or adolescents in the medieval period. Texts will in...

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landsca...

Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones, Jack Zipes explores children's literature, from the grissly moralism...

New in paperback! Winner of the 1996 G.K. Hall Award and Multicultural Review's 1995 Carey McWilliams Award. Paperback edition available 2002. 'De...

This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literat...

This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus ...

This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study p...

Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protago...

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demon...

Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts whic...

In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-ye...

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences betw...

Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A. Kestner sheds new light on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works pub...

St. Nicholas is acknowledged to be the best children's magazine published, particularly during the reign of its founding editor, Mary Mapes Dodge. ...

This book studies the dialectic relationship between the image of the child and the toy in literary depictions of childhood in 19th- and 20th- cent...

Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this tim...

“An enjoyable account of a lifelong involvement with literature.”—John Vukmirovich, Times Literary Supplement   This “little history” takes on a ve...

Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. Ousha...

Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. Ousha...

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Ka...

Contributions by Anna Bugajska, Dayna Campbell, Dallas Ducar, Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, Melanie Goss, Joseph Holloway, Jeremy Johnston, Manjushri Karth...

In the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industr...

Decades after captivating the globe with the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling ignited fierce controversy by promoting anti-trans views through so...

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers wou...

In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young Audiences. At that time, many litera...

In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young Audiences. At that time, many litera...

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature. Animating the Victorians: D...

In his day, Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) was a well-known figure in American arts and letters, with close ties to the New England Transcen...

In England at the turn of the nineteenth century, the advent of Romanticism coincided with major changes in ideas about children and childhood, eve...

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, T. Jackie Cuevas, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Miranda, Jesus Montaño, ...

Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees,...

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children’s literature has had a culturally inferior status resulti...

Historical fiction has a great deal to offer as its readers and devotees have always known. The time is ripe however for the historical novel and h...