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Can different critical approaches-new historicism, narratology, or postcolonialism-enable us to gain leverage on the different implications of gender, age, race, and class in our readings of children's books and children's culture?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533142040849,"sku":"GOR002532659","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50466879013137,"sku":"CIN0801865263VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52122886799633,"sku":"NLS9780801865268","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53405709238545,"sku":"GOR006698075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801865263.jpg?v=1751455278"},{"product_id":"kiddie-lit-book-beverly-lyon-clark-9780801869006","title":"Kiddie Lit","description":"The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the 19th century, however, readers considered both \"Tom Sawyer\" and \"Huckleberry Finn\" as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of \"boys' books\" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults - women and men - wept over \"Little Women\", and America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the 20th century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration. In \"Kiddie Lit\", Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America - and its possible reintegration - both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J.K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults, whether written for boys or girls. While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension and moralizing. Clark's study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the 19th century - which draws on scholarship in gender, cultural and literary studies - offers provocative insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367505891601,"sku":"CIN0801869005G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51941203247377,"sku":"GOR014469947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52961159315729,"sku":"CIN0801869005VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801869005.jpg?v=1751201630"},{"product_id":"kiddie-lit-book-beverly-lyon-clark-9780801881701","title":"Kiddie Lit","description":"The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both  Tom Sawyer and  Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of \"boys' books\" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults-women  and men-wept over  Little Women. And America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration.  In  Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America-and its recent possible reintegration-both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. 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Clark's engaging and enlightening study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the nineteenth century-which draws on recent scholarship in gender, cultural, and literary studies- offers provocative new insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50703708061969,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50703711011089,"sku":"CIN0801881706G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801881706.jpg?v=1750745673"},{"product_id":"afterlife-of-little-women-book-beverly-lyon-clark-9781421415581","title":"The Afterlife of Little Women","description":"Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51747277603089,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51747279143185,"sku":"CIN1421415585G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781421415581.jpg?v=1750997659"},{"product_id":"regendering-the-school-story-book-beverly-lyon-clark-9780415928915","title":"Regendering the School Story","description":"In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and H. G. Wells did-he sometimes empowered his female characters, granting them freedoms that he had experienced at school. Women who wrote about boys' schools often gave unusual emphasis to families, and at times, revealed the contradictions in the schoolyard code against telling tales or presented competing versions of masculinity, such as the Christian gentleman versus the self-made man. Sometimes these middle-class white women projected their sense of estrangement onto working class and minority women. 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