Adulthood in Children's Literature
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Adulthood in Children's Literature by Associate Vanessa Joosen
While most scholars who study children’s books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adulthood in children’s literature. Adulthood in Children’s Literature demonstrates how books for young readers evoke adulthood as a stage in life, enacted by adult characters, and in relationship with the construction of childhood. Employing age studies as a framework for analysis, this book covers a range of English and Dutch children’s books published from 1970 to the present. Calling upon critical voices like Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Peter Hollindale, Maria Nikolajeva and Lorraine Green, and the works of such authors as Babette Cole, Philip Pullman, Ted van Lieshout, Jacqueline Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Guus Kuijer, Joosen offers a fresh perspective on children’s literature by focusing not on the child but the adult.
Vanessa Joosen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where she specializes in children’s literature studies, fairy-tale studies and age studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781350154810 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350154814 |
| Title | Adulthood in Children's Literature |
| Author | Associate Vanessa Joosen |
| Series | Bloomsbury Perspectives On Children's Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2020-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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