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.
How Picturebooks Work
1st Edition
By Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott
May 05, 2006
How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and they argue that picturebooks ...
Inventing the Child
1st Edition
By John Zornado
May 01, 2006
Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. J. Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of ...
The Poetics of Childhood
1st Edition
By Roni Natov
November 15, 2002
The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the ...
Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
1st Edition
By Beverly Lyon Clark
December 07, 2000
In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the...
White Supremacy in Children's Literature: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
1st Edition
By Donnarae MacCann
November 17, 2000
This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that ...
Russell Hoban/Forty Years: Essays on His Writings for Children
1st Edition
By Alida Allison
July 27, 2000
This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American writer residing in England who writes for children and adults. The Forty Years in the title refers to the length of Hoban's career to date. Hoban's contribution specifically to children's literature is commemorated in this ...
Children's Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory
1st Edition
By Ian Wojik-Andrews
July 11, 2000
This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory....
The Case of Peter Rabbit: Changing Conditions of Literature for Children
1st Edition
By Margaret Mackey
April 01, 1999
Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 re-tellings in a variety of media, some authorized by Potter's publisher Frederick Warne, some ...