Literary Cultures And Twentieth Century Childhoods
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Literary Cultures And Twentieth Century Childhoods
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Author : Rachel Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Literary Cultures And Twentieth Century Childhoods written by Rachel Conrad and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and children’s television), essays foreground the representation of child voices and subjectivities within texts, explore challenges to received notions of childhood, and emphasize the role of child-oriented texts in larger cultural and political projects. Chapters frame themes of spectacle, self, and specularity across the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and writers.
Literary Cultures And Twenty First Century Childhoods
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Author : Nathalie op de Beeck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-05
Literary Cultures And Twenty First Century Childhoods written by Nathalie op de Beeck and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. We realize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolution continue to reshape our world and that of new generations. At a volatile moment, this collection asks how twenty-first century literature and related media represent and shape the contemporary child, childhood, and youth. Because literary representations construct ideal childhoods as well as model the rights, privileges, and respect afforded to actual young people, this collection surveys examples from popular culture and from scholarly practice. Chapters investigate the human rights of children in literature and international policy; the potential subjective agency and power of the child; the role models proposed for young people; the diverse identities children embody and encounter; and the environmental well-being of future human and nonhuman generations. As a snapshot of our developing historical moment, this collection identifies emergent trends, considers theories and critiques of childhood and literature, and observes how new technologies and paradigms are destabilizing past conventions of storytelling and lived experience.
Literary Cultures And Eighteenth Century Childhoods
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Author : Andrew O'Malley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-12-29
Literary Cultures And Eighteenth Century Childhoods written by Andrew O'Malley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.
Literary Cultures And Nineteenth Century Childhoods
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Author : Kristine Moruzi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-28
Literary Cultures And Nineteenth Century Childhoods written by Kristine Moruzi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated. This scope enables examination of the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Thomas Hardy alongside well-known fiction intended for young readers by George MacDonald, Christabel Coleridge, and Kate Greenaway. The century was also distinctive for the rise of the children’s magazine, and this book broadens the definition of literary cultures to include magazines produced both by, and for, young people. The volume examines how the child and family are conceptualised, how children are positioned as readers in genres including the domestic novel, school story, Robinsonade, and fantasy fiction, how literary childhoods are written and politicised, and how childhood intersects with perceptions of animals and the natural environment. The range of chapters in this collection and the texts they consider demonstrates the variability and fluidity of literary cultures and nineteenth-century childhoods.
Literary Cultures And Twentieth Century Childhoods
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Author : Rachel Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-12
Literary Cultures And Twentieth Century Childhoods written by Rachel Conrad and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and children’s television), essays foreground the representation of child voices and subjectivities within texts, explore challenges to received notions of childhood, and emphasize the role of child-oriented texts in larger cultural and political projects. Chapters frame themes of spectacle, self, and specularity across the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and writers.
Literary Cultures And Medieval And Early Modern Childhoods
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Author : Naomi J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-17
Literary Cultures And Medieval And Early Modern Childhoods written by Naomi J. Miller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.
American Childhood
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Author : Anne Scott MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1995-10-01
American Childhood written by Anne Scott MacLeod and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children or adolescents--stories set more or less in the time of their publication. Some essays also draw creatively on childhood memoirs, travel writings that contain foreigners' observations of American children, and other studies of children's literature. The topics on which MacLeod writes range from the current politicized marketplace for children's books, to the reestablishment (and reconfiguration) of the family in recent children's fiction, to the ways that literature challenges or enforces the idealization of children. MacLeod sometimes considers a single author's canon, as when she discusses the feminism of the Nancy Drew mystery series or the Orwellian vision of Robert Cormier. At other times, she looks at a variety of works within a particular period, for example, Jacksonian America, the post-World War II decade, or the 1970s. MacLeod also examines books that were once immensely popular but currently have no appreciable readership--the Horatio Alger stories, for example--and finds fresh, intriguing ways to view the work of such well-known writers as Louisa May Alcott, Beverly Cleary, and Paul Zindel.
Children S Cultures After Childhood
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Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Children S Cultures After Childhood written by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of “after childhoods”, proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children’s geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children’s lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children’s literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies.
Chinese Literature And The Child
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Author : K. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Chinese Literature And The Child written by K. Foster and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.
The Fictional Role Of Childhood In Victorian And Early Twentieth Century Children S Literature
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Author : Fiona McCulloch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Fictional Role Of Childhood In Victorian And Early Twentieth Century Children S Literature written by Fiona McCulloch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Children categories.
This book studies canonical children's literature during what is perceived to be the first Golden Age of this genre. Building upon critical studies, such as Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan, the instability at the heart of children's literature is examined. The notion that children's fiction promotes a discursive innocence is resisted by analyzing texts written specifically for a child readership. Textual tensions and desires inscribed from adult culture's penmanship, and the subversion of childhood's mythopoeic status are unveiled through critical analysis, highlighting the complex imbalance between adult narrator and child character. Just as childhood and its connotations of innocence are a cultural adult production, so must children's fiction incorporate an element of adult masquerade, where the child character embodies a performative dimension of the adult narrator's psyche. A critical metaphor, 'textual pedophilia' encapsulates the literary and discursive desire for innocence ruptured by the adult palimpsest of a postlapsarian authorial presence. The title refers to the imaginative preoccupations of childhood as transfixed by a performative adult creativity hiding behin