Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages) |
Series |
Children's literature and culture |
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Garland reference library of the humanities.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Children's literature and culture.
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Contents |
History as human relationship -- Freud, Shakespeare, and Hamlet as children's literature -- The Brothers Grimm, the black pedagogy, and the roots of fascist culture -- Victorian imperialism and the golden age of children's literature -- Walt Disney, ideological transposition, and the child -- Maurice Sendak and the detachment child -- The etiology of consumerism |
Summary |
This book traces the historical roots of Western culture's stories of childhood in which the child is subjugated to the adult. Going back 400 years, it looks again at Hamlet, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney cartoons. Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. John Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting with the works of Calvin, Freud, and Rousseau and culminating with the modern ""consumer"" childhoo |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Children -- Social conditions.
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Children and adults.
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Parent and child.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Children and adults
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Children -- Social conditions
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Parent and child
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0203906799 |
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9780203906798 |
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0815335245 |
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9780815335245 |
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