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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present |
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Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
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| Contents |
Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I The cultural dynamics of cross-generational (re- )appropriation; 1 Historical roots of consumption-based nostalgia for childhood in the United States; 2 Nostalgia or innovation? The adaptation of Dutch children's books into films; 3 Superheroes and identity: The role of nostalgia in comic book culture; 4 (Re- )constructing childhood memories: Nostalgia, creativity, and the expanded worlds of the Lego fan community |
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PART II Childhood nostalgia and memorial politics5 Nostalgic panoramas of childhood: Toy objects in Ireland, 1851-1909; 6 Making children's 'classics, ' making past childhoods: Children's 'classics' as sites for memory politics and nostalgia; 7 Propaganda and nostalgia: Constructing memories about the German Democratic Republic for young people; 8 Communist childhoods and nostalgia: A cultural analysis of online remembrance strategies (2006-2011); 9 Lost in nostalgia: Images of childhood in photo books for children; PART III Modalities of nostalgia |
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10 Looking for asymmetries: A theoretical approach to childhood nostalgia in pre-figurative culture11 Perverse nostalgia: Child sex abuse as trauma commodity in neo-Victorian fiction; 12 "Scared Straight" and beyond: The presumption of teenaged guilt and the perpetuation of defeated paradigms; 13 Teenage nostalgia: Perpetual adolescents in Little Children and Young Adult; 14 Ambivalent longings: Nostalgia in the picturebooks of Pieter Gaudesaboos; 15 Children's music and nostalgia: Digging in the past with an eye to the future |
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16 Happiness is quite common: Postmemory of the 1950s in De Daltons (1999-2010)PART IV Nostalgic science; 17 Comics, childhood, and nostalgia: Frederic Wertham and the comic book panic of the 1950s; 18 Back to where we came from: Evolutionary psychology and children's literature and media; Index |
| Summary |
"While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is associated through contemporary convergence culture with the commodities of one's youth as they are recycled from one media platform to another. Essays in the volume's first section identify recurrent patterns in the recycling, adaptation, and remediation of children's toys and media, providing context for section two's exploration of childhood nostalgia in memorial practices. In these essays, the contributors suggest that childhood toys and media play a role in the construction of s the imagined communities (Benedict Anderson) that define nations and nationalism. Eschewing the dichotomy between restorative and reflexive nostalgia, the essays in section three address the ethics of nostalgia in terms of child agency and depictions of childhood. In a departure from the notion that childhood nostalgia is the exclusive prerogative of narrative fiction, section four looks for its traces in the child sciences. Pushing against nostalgia's persistent associations with wishful thinking, false memories, and distortion, this collection suggests nostalgia is never categorically good or bad in itself, but owes its benefits or defects to the ways in which it is brought to bear on the representation of children and childhood."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Children.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Children in mass media.
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Children in literature.
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Nostalgia -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Children
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Children in literature
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Children -- Social conditions
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Children in mass media
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wesseling, Elisabeth, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315604626 |
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1315604620 |
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1317068475 |
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9781317068471 |
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9781317068464 |
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1317068467 |
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