Children's Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
Founding Editor and Series Editor 1994-2011: Jack Zipes
Series Editor, 2011-2018: Philip Nel
Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, Children's Literature and Culture is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. Dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature and children’s culture, in 2011 the series expanded its focus to include childhood studies, and it seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods. An advocate for scholarship from around the globe, the series recognizes innovation and encourages interdisciplinarity. Children's Literature and Culture offers cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections considering topics such as gender, race, picturebooks, childhood, nation, religion, technology, and many others. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats
October 19, 2009
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very ...
Recycling Red Riding Hood
1st Edition
By Sandra Beckett
July 01, 2009
Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature....
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
1st Edition
By Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore
June 16, 2009
This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. ...
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Farah Mendlesohn
June 16, 2009
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ...
Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
By Naomi Miller
June 16, 2009
This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for children in and out of the classroom. It is divided into three sections comprising essays by well-known ...
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry
June 16, 2009
This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address ...
Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Carolyn Daniel
June 16, 2009
Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but also its readers. There are a number of gripping questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction that ...
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child
1st Edition
By Annette Wannamaker
January 10, 2009
Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply ...
Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By John Stephens
October 17, 2008
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of ...
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults
1st Edition
By Mike Cadden
June 01, 2008
This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature....
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern: Perils of a Puppet in the United States
1st Edition
By Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey
April 18, 2008
In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of ...
The Poetics of Childhood
1st Edition
By Roni Natov
June 09, 2006
Children's literature provides a medium through which writers re-create or approximate the sensibility of a child. But what exactly is this sensibility, and how does it find creative expression in adulthood? What language can portray the seemingly untranslatable experience of a child? The Poetics ...