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.
Brown Gold: Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002
1st Edition
By Michelle Martin
September 25, 2012
Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even ...
Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Hamida Bosmajian
September 25, 2012
Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist....
Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature: Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers
1st Edition
By Anne Lundin
September 10, 2012
In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the ...
Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context
1st Edition
By Roderick McGillis
September 10, 2012
This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism.The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism, ...
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book
1st Edition
By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
September 02, 2012
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined...
The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Andrew O'Malley
June 21, 2012
This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late 18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the ...
Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Debra Mitts-Smith
May 30, 2012
From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of ...
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers
1st Edition
By Maria Nikolajeva
May 30, 2012
This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children’s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of...
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature: Invisible Storytellers
1st Edition
By Gillian Lathey
May 30, 2012
This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories translated from other languages have continued to ...
Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence
1st Edition
By Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson
April 20, 2012
In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile" ...
New Directions in Picturebook Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz
April 20, 2012
In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different ...
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Gargano
April 10, 2012
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian ...