Adulthood in Children's Literature

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.>

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• Authors: Associate Professor Vanessa (Associate Professor or English Literature Joosen, Vanessa Joosen, Vanessa (Associate Professor Or English Li Joosen, Vanessa (Associate Professor or English Literature Joosen
• Assisted by: Lisa Sainsbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781350049789
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04978-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general