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.
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism
1st Edition
By Alison Waller
May 16, 2011
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, ...
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
1st Edition
By Kathryn James
January 24, 2011
Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. ...
Russian Children's Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova
January 24, 2011
Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative ...
Shakespeare in Children's Literature: Gender and Cultural Capital
1st Edition
By Erica Hateley
December 21, 2010
Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the...
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present
1st Edition
By Penelope E. Brown
December 17, 2009
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and...
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
By Sandra L. Beckett
December 17, 2009
In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across ...
Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Lydia Kokkola
December 17, 2009
Writing about the Holocaust and writing for young readers evoke two quite separate sets of concerns which are not always mutually compatible. The first half of Representing the Holocaust focuses on how literary material can present historically verifiable material. The second half examines how ...
The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership
1st Edition
By Rachel Falconer
December 17, 2009
"Highly recommended" by Choice While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack ...
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600–1830
1st Edition
By Penelope E. Brown
December 07, 2009
These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential ...
Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Elbert
November 23, 2009
"Recommended" by Choice Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions ...
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....