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.
Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915
1st Edition
By Kristine Moruzi
September 09, 2016
Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1850 and 1915. During an era of significant political, social, and economic change, girls' periodicals demonstrate the difficulties of fashioning a ...
Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices
1st Edition
By Jill Shefrin, Mary Hilton
September 09, 2016
Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky ...
The Child Savage, 1890–2010: From Comics to Games
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth Wesseling
September 06, 2016
Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media. Older and newer media such as films, ...
Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Amy L. Montz
August 26, 2016
Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. The ...
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
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
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
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...