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Zusatztext The quality of the scholarship is high, the editing sure, presentation appealing (though fat, it's an inviting book to read) and the referencing full and unfussy... The result is a sophisticated collection that passes both the dip-test and the long haul: opened at random, the book draws you in: read it at length, and you finish a satisfying chapter feeling there is more to be said... It can be wholly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.Lynne Vallone is Professor and Chair of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, the first Ph.D.-granting department of Childhood Studies in the United States. She is the author of Becoming Victoria and Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, as well as co-associate general editor of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history! an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches! a review of genres! and a selection of original! cutting-edge! and interdisciplinary critical essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary critical essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction-Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone; I. Adults and Children; 1.: The Fundamentals of Children's Literature Criticism: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871). Peter Hunt; 2.: Randall Jarrell's The Bat Poet (1964): Poets! Children! and Readers in an Age of Prose. Richard Flynn; 3.: Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Together (1979) as a Primer for Critical Literacy. Teya Rosenberg; 4.: Blending Genres and Crossing Audiences: Harry Potter (1997-2007) and the Future of Literary Fiction. Karin Westman; II. Pictures and Poetics; 5.: Wanda's Wonderland: Wanda Gág and Her Millions of Cats (1928). Nathalie op de Beeck; 6.: 6. A Cross-Written Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes' The Dreamkeeper (1932). Katharine Capshaw Smith; 7.: Dumbo (1941)! Disney! and Difference: Walt Disney Productions and Film as Children's Literature. Nicholas Sammond; 8.: Redrawing the Comic Strip Child: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts (1950-52! 1959-60) as Cross-Writing. Charles Hatfield; 9.: The Cat in the Hippie: Dr. Seuss! Nonsense! the Carnivalesque! and the Sixties Rebel (The Cat in the Hat [1957]). Kevin Shortsleeve; 10.: Wild Things and Wolf Dreams: Maurice Sendak! Picturebook Psychologist (Where the Wild Things Are [1963]). Kenneth Kidd; 11.: Re-imagining the Monkey King in Comics: Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006). Lan Dong; III. Reading History/Learning Race and Class; 12.: Froggy's Little Brother (1875): Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children and the Politics of Poverty. Kimberley Reynolds; 13.: History in Fiction: Contextualization as Interpretation in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1886). M.O. Grenby; 14.: Tom Sawyer (1876)! Audience and American Indians. Beverly Lyon Clark; 15.: Living with the Kings: Class! Taste! and Family Formation in Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881). Kelly Hager; 16.: A Daughter of the House: Discourses of Adoption in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables! (1908). Mavis Reimer; 17.: Where in America Are You! God? Judy Blume! Margaret...
