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.
Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature
1st Edition
By Kristen B. Proehl
September 30, 2020
From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the ...
Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Marshall
August 14, 2020
Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of ...
Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Ann González
August 14, 2020
In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, ...
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Sara K. Day
August 14, 2020
Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions ...
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
1st Edition
By Bronwyn Lowe
August 14, 2020
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and ...
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity
1st Edition
By Maria Truglio
January 14, 2020
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of...
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction: A Biopsychosocial Approach
1st Edition
By Derek Thiess
December 10, 2019
Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the ...
The Big Smallness: Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children�s Literature
1st Edition
By Michelle Ann Abate
December 10, 2019
This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Emerging from a powerful combination of the ease and ...
The Beloved Does Not Bite: Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them
1st Edition
By Debra Dudek
October 02, 2019
In this new monograph, author Debra Dudek defines a new era of vampire texts in which vampires have moved from their iconic dark, feared, often seductive figure lingering in alleys, to the beloved and morally sensitive vampire winning the affections of teen protagonists throughout pop culture. ...
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith, Elizabeth Bullen
May 21, 2019
This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to ...
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Anja Muller
May 21, 2019
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from ...
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature: Where Children Rule
1st Edition
Edited
By Kit Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark
May 21, 2019
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland ...