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Space and Place in Children�s Literature, 1789 to the Present - Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present (Hardback)
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Space and Place in Children�s Literature, 1789 to the Present - Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present (Hardback)

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Published: 05/03/2015
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Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children’s book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child’s relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children’s literature.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781472420541
Number of pages: 266
Weight: 635 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm


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"This is a very useful addition to children's literature scholarship, with an impressive breadth of material." --Newsletter of the Children's Books History Society"This robust anthology models an international and interdisciplinary conceptual framework for a range of critical fields, including childhood studies, cultural studies, and children’s geographies." --Erin Spring, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, The Lion and the Unicorn

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