Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature

Elizabeth Bullen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia.Kristine Moruzi is Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia.Michelle J. Smith is Senior Lecturer and Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia.

"What has been needed is a key text that readers can depend on to give them an overview of the potential of the ‘affective turn’ in theory – and this edited collection fills that gap." --David Rudd, Director of NCRCL, University of Roehampton, UK"Within the context of children’s culture, Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature offers scholars a sophisticated synthesis of those cognitive theories involved with emotions and how they are deployed. The essays in this volume demonstrate how children and teenagers learn emotionology through the texts they experience—and even more important, these essays provide clear evidence of the important role children’s literature can play in providing data for researchers interested in the connection between children, their reading, and emotional development." --Roberta Seelinger Trites, English, Illinois State University, USA

• Chapter 1: Children’s Literature and the Affective Turn: Affect, Emotion, EmpathyElizabeth Bullen, Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. SmithSection I: Affect and the Historical Child ReaderChapter 2: From Virtue Ethics to Emotional Intelligence: Advice from Medieval Parents to Their ChildrenJuanita Feros RuysChapter 3: Charity, Affect, and Waif NovelsKristine MoruziChapter 4: ‘feeling is believing’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty and the Power of EmotionAdrienne GavinChapter 5: ‘She cannot smile the smile that wells up from the heart’: Beauty, Health and Emotion in Six to Sixteen and The Secret GardenMichelle J. SmithSection II: Theory of MindChapter 6: Emotions and Ethics: Implications for Children’s LiteratureMaria NikolajevaChapter 7: Simplified Minds: Empathy and Mind-modelling in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance CycleLydia KokkolaChapter 8: ‘Would I lie to you?’: Unreliable Narration and the Emotional Rollercoast in Justine Larbalestier’s LiarBettina Kümmerling-MeibauerSection III: Place and SpaceChapter 9: Spatialities of Emotion: Place and Non-Place in Children’s Picture BooksKerry MallanChapter 10: Changing Minds and Hearts: Felt Theory and the Carceral Child in Indigenous Canadian Residential School Picture BooksDoris WolfSection IV: Emotions of BelongingChapter 11: ‘Love: it will kill you and save you, both’: Love as Rebellion in Recent YA Dystopian TrilogiesDebra DudekChapter 12: At the Risk of ‘Feeling Brown’ in Gay YA: Machismo, Mariposas, and the Drag of IdentityJon M. WargoChapter 13: ‘Conceal, Don’t Feel’: Disability, Monstrosity and the Freak in Edward Scissorhands and FrozenDylan Holdsworth