Children's Literature: New Approaches

by K. Lesnik-Oberstein

Overview

Children's Literature: New Approaches is a guide for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of children's literature. It is structured through critics reading individual texts to bring out wider issues that are current in the field. Includes chronology of key events and publications, a selective guide to further reading and a list of Web-based resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403917386
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/30/2004
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

DANIELA CASELLI Lecturer in English Literature, University of Salford, UK
NEIL COCKS Head of English, Southeast Essex College, Southend-on-Sea, UK
LILA MARZ HARPER Instructor, Central Washington University, USA
JACQUELINE LAZU Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University, USA
J HILLIS MILLER UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, USA
SARAH SPOONER Teaches at the University of Reading, UK
CHRISTINE SUTPHIN Professor of English, Central Washington University, USA
STEPHEN THOMSON Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, University of Reading, UK
SUE WALSH Lecturer in Children's Literature and American Literature, University of Reading, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Author and Authorship; S.Walsh Victorian Childhood; C.Sutphin Reading; J.H.Miller The Implied Reader; N.Cocks Children's Literature, Science and Faith; L.M.Harper The Child, The Family, The Relationship: S.Thomson Reading Intertextuality; D.Caselli National Identity; J.Lazu Landscapes; S.Spooner Index