Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides ...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question Who speaks? by examining a variet...

This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of childrens literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rig...

Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an...

Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone childrens and Young Adult literature from the ...

Storying Plants in Australian Childrens and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the represen...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences offers a comprehensive overview of translation in the context of young audiences.The hand...

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Childrens Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions o...

Contributions by Sara Austin, Robert Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jang...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for...

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, h...

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskins storyor thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of womens shrewd accounts of their relatio...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

Academics, researchers and postgraduate students in Contemporary English Literature; Gothic Literature; Children's Literature; Youth and Childhood ...

Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied readership masks much parado...

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study childrens literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also...

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study childrens literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also...

In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, Edward ...

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but childrens literature as a genre has its beginnings in ...

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: interactive features and links to the up-to-date Companion Website, with more strategies a...

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...