| Description |
xiv, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein -- 2. Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film / Joe Kelleher -- 3. The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: the Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object / Erica Burman -- 4. Between Atavism and Altruism: the Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction / Jenny Bourne Taylor -- 5. The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the 1840s / Sara Thornton -- 6. Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children / Kimberley Reynolds and Paul Yates -- 7. Word Children / Rex Stainton Rogers and Wendy Stainton Rogers -- 8. The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel /Margarida Morgado -- 9. Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier / Valerie Walkerdine -- 10. Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: the Organic Writing of the Child / Stephen Thomson |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Children in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in children.
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| Author |
Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín.
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| LC no. |
98022990 |
| ISBN |
0312217404 (hardcover) |
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0333711483 (hbk) |
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0333711491 (paperback) |
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