Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry ...
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth-Centur
How, and what, children and young adults read are questions bound up with both aspirations and concerns. This book brings together experts from a range of academic disciplines to examine how this reading has been mediated in Anglo-American contexts. Reading Mediation explores mediation across case studies of different reading experiences, ......
This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.
This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.
Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century
New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine ......
Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of "liminal spaces" around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading ......
The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America
The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated ......
"This title is a second edition of the "Keywords for Children's Literature." This work provides a list of essential terms for the study of children's literature with a discussion of each term"--
"This title is a second edition of the "Keywords for Children's Literature." This work provides a list of essential terms for the study of children's literature with a discussion of each term"--
