Books in the Children's Literature and Culture series

Explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices.

Focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature from Mrs Sherwood's Evangelical text of 1818 "The History of the Fairchild Family" to Jacqueline Wilson's social reality novels, interrogating the idea that portrayals of family in children's literature have changed dramatically.

Argues that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress'.

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children¿s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life..

Extends the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross.

Exposes the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, the authors reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors.

Dicusses the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. This book covers topics such as intervisuality, twist endings, autobiographical narration, and metaliterary awareness in picturebooks. It also examines the narrative challenges of first-person narratives.

This work examines how the Holocaust is represented in fiction for children and young adults.

Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and DC Comics, this book explores ethnic, national, and heroic identities. It examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children's literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001.

This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the eighteenth century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature.

Explores representations of modern technology in contemporary science fiction for young people. This book exposes the anti-technological bias existing within a genre usually associated with celebrating technology, and suggests that this bias is a form of resistance to the face of childhood and technology's contribution to this change.

In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the canon of childrens literature.

Explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children's literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. This book investigates the East German censorship machinery, showing that there is a close correlation between the socialist ideology propagated by the regime.

Proposes theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States.

Offers a fresh system of categorization for a differentiated description of children's literature. This book analyzes the field and articulates its key definitions, terms, and concepts. It discusses the system of symbols, norms, concepts, and discourses that have evolved during the past two centuries in children's literature.

This book examines young reader's narratives about Nazism and the Holocaust in terms of the official as well as the understated motivations of their authors.

Voices of the Other offers a variety of approaches to children's literature that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism.

Shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power. This book reveals how cultural discourses influence and are influenced by literary works, but how relevant the study of death is to adolescent fiction - the literature of 'becoming'.

Beginning with a broad overview of crossover fiction in Britain, this book offers readings of leading British crossover authors, including J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and Mark Haddon. This book discusses the growing popularity of children's classics for adult readers, with a special focus on C S Lewis.

Looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, the author demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the cultural capital of 'Shakespeare', and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.

Connecting children's literature to the discipline of food studies, this volume presents food as a multivalent signifier in children's literature, and makes a strong argument for its central place in literature and literary theory. It provides us with a critical opportunity to puzzle out the significance of food in children's literature.

Examines the fundamental themes which inform our understanding of 'the teenager', which emerge in both literary and cultural contexts, and asks whether parallel realities and identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive.

Examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children's perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. This book reveals the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents.

Studies a large variety of children's literature written in English between 1867 and 1911. This title reveals a distinct interest in questions of national unity and identity among children's writers of the day. It explores the influence of American and British authors on the shaping of Canadian identity.

A study that examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature. It elucidates the cultural content of Carroll's work and situates the Alice books in relation to Carroll's juvenilia, his letters, photographs of children and his attempt to combine children's and adult literatures.