Voracious Children - Who Eats Whom in Children''s Literature

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Daniel teaches children's literature at Monash University. This is her first book. Klappentext First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Exploring the way food is used to seduce, and coerce within children's literature, and its readers, this book tackles questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction. It coves topics such as childhood obesity and anorexia, and demonstrates how this literature attempts to regulate childhood eating practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: You Are What You Eat: Food and Cultural Identity Chapter Two: Have you been a Good Girl? Manners and Mores at Tea-Time Chapter Three: Sweet Dreams and Food Fetishes Chapter Four: The Land of Milk and Honey: Representing the Mother Chapter Five: The Wicked Witch: A Pathological Image of Mother Chapter Six: Hairy on the Inside: From Cannibals to Pedophiles Chapter Seven: The Age of Disgust: Rude Books for Rude Boys Chapter Eight: Disorderly Eating: A Taste for Control Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Daniel, Daniel Carolyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2006
• EAN: 9780415976428
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97642-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Children's Literature and Cult; Children's Literature and Culture; Children's Literature and Cult
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Rechtsmedizin, Forensik, English, Röntgen, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Medizinische Bildverarbeitung: Radiologie, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism