Russian Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova

Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97864-4 (Routledge)

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Into the Closet

Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

By Victoria Flanagan

Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98008-1 (Routledge)

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The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book

By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97800-2 (Routledge)

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The Gothic in Children's Literature

Haunting the Borders

Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96036-6 (Routledge)

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Soon Come Home to This Island

West Indians in British Children's Literature

By Karen Sands-O'Connor

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97630-5 (Routledge)

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Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture

Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child

By Annette Wannamaker

Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97469-1 (Routledge)

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A Critical History of French Children's Literature

Volume One: 1600–1830

By Penelope E. Brown

These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97326-7 (Routledge)

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A Critical History of French Children's Literature

Volume Two: 1830-Present

By Penelope E. Brown

This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97327-4 (Routledge)

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Once Upon a Time in a Different World

Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature

By Neal A. Lester

Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98019-7 (Routledge)

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When Dreams Came True

Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

By Jack Zipes

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98007-4 (Routledge)

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