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Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

About the Book Series

This series recognizes and supports innovative work on the child and on literature for children and adolescents that informs teaching and engages with current and emerging debates in the field. Proposals are welcome for interdisciplinary and comparative studies by humanities scholars working in a variety of fields, including literature; book history, periodicals history, and print culture and the sociology of texts; theater, film, musicology, and performance studies; history, including the history of education; gender studies; art history and visual culture; cultural studies; and religion.

Topics might include, among other possibilities, how concepts and representations of the child have changed in response to adult concerns; postcolonial and transnational perspectives; "domestic imperialism" and the acculturation of the young within and across class and ethnic lines; the commercialization of childhood and children's bodies; views of young people as consumers and/or originators of culture; the child and religious discourse; children's and adolescents' self-representations; and adults' recollections of childhood.

28 Series Titles


Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911

1st Edition

By Shih-Wen Chen
August 26, 2016

In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen ...

Children's Games in the New Media Age Childlore, Media and the Playground

Children's Games in the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground

1st Edition

Edited By Chris Richards, Andrew Burn
March 05, 2014

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary ...

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation From Snow White to WALL-E

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation: From Snow White to WALL-E

2nd Edition

By David Whitley
June 22, 2012

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to ...

The Writings of Hesba Stretton Reclaiming the Outcast

The Writings of Hesba Stretton: Reclaiming the Outcast

1st Edition

By Elaine Lomax
April 28, 2009

Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical...

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