Ethics in British Children's Literature - Unexamined Life

Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down , this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature. Ethics in British Children's Literature explores the extent to which contemporary writing for children might be considered philosophical, tackling ethical spheres relevant to and arising from books for young people, such as naughtiness, good and evil, family life, and environmental ethics. Rigorously engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to engage young readers as moral agents.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Sainsbury
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9781441139832
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3983-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature; Perspectives on Children's Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general