Adulthood in Children's Literature

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa Joosen is Associate Professor of English Literature at theUniversity of Antwerp, Belgium, where she specializes in children’s literaturestudies, fairy-tale studies and age studies. Vorwort Using the field of age studies to frame analyses, this book discusses the construction of adulthood in Dutch and English children's books (1970-2010). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Defining adulthood in children’s books2. Grown-up children? The adult protagonist in children’s literature 3. Hair, hair, everywhere: The adult body in children’s literature4. The disdainful adult: Childism in children’s literature 5. From writing block to wonderful friend: The adult writer as character in children’s literature6. Second childhoods: The elderly adult in children’s literatureBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Associate Professor Vanessa (Associate Professor or English Literature Joosen, Vanessa Joosen, Vanessa (Associate Professor or English Literature Joosen
• Assisted by: Lisa Sainsbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781350154810
• ISBN: 978-1-350-15481-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: 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