Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present

AvMaria Sachiko Cecire,Hannah Field

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

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Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children’s book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child’s relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children’s literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781472420541

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Maria Sachiko Cecire is Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of the Experimental Humanities concentration at Bard College, USA; Hannah Field is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex, UK; Kavita Mudan Finn is a visiting assistant professor at Southern New Hampshire University, USA; Malini Roy is a freelance writer and editor in Germany.

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"This is a very useful addition to children's literature scholarship, with an impressive breadth of material." --Newsletter of the Children's Books History Society"This robust anthology models an international and interdisciplinary conceptual framework for a range of critical fields, including childhood studies, cultural studies, and children’s geographies." --Erin Spring, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, The Lion and the Unicorn

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Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of PlayPart 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh BaraiPart 2 Real-World Places3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD Elzette SteenkampPart 3 Traversing the Imaginary6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet Ruth Feingold8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot StaffordPart 4 Book Space9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine RenaudEpilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman