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.
Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination
1st Edition
By Kirsten Stirling
November 10, 2014
This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan ...
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
1st Edition
By Noga Applebaum
November 10, 2014
In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum argues that perceptions of technology as a ...
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Lefebvre
November 10, 2014
This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that ...
The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Kit Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark
November 10, 2014
This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the ...
Translation Under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic
1st Edition
By Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
November 10, 2014
In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children’s literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual factors, the study undertakes a close investigation of the ...
Beyond Pippi Longstocking: Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Astrid Surmatz
September 11, 2014
Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to ...
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature
1st Edition
By Julie Cross
August 12, 2014
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex...
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Tison Pugh
July 17, 2014
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of ...
Landscape in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Jane Carroll
July 17, 2014
This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and ...
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
1st Edition
By Holly Blackford
July 17, 2014
In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann...
A Past Without Shadow: Constructing the Past in German Books for Children
1st Edition
By Zohar Shavit
May 30, 2014
A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape illumination. Here ...
LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark
May 30, 2014
Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of ...