Children's Literature (The New Critical Idiom)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Definitions
	Definers and anti-definers
	Defining Children’s Literature: shaping the field
	Including and excluding texts in the genre
	Adult authors, child readers
	Childist criticism
	Childhood experience and children’s literature
	Reception memoirs
	Book history and correspondence
	Children’s literature vs. young adult literature
	Disciplinary commitments and definitions
2. Children’s literature: early and global histories
	Pre-modern children’s literature
	Moving towards a dedicated literature for children
	What the child should signify: Evangelicals, Romantics, and rational moralists
	Anti-didacticism and the ‘golden age’ of children’s
literature
	Modernism and the avant-garde
	Children’s literature as challenge to periodization
	Global histories
3. Children’s literature and the political
	A paradoxical space
	Ideology and children’s literature
	Children’s literature and political movements
	Being political
	Divergent readings
	Propaganda
	Sceptical child readers
	Case study: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House
series
4. Theories and methodologies
	Cognitive narrative theory and Childhood Studies approaches
	Cognitive literary criticism
	Diversity
	Race
	Gender and sexuality
	Disability
	Case study: Cece Bell’s El Deafo
5. Children’s literature and the global and natural world
	Postcoloniality and globalization
	Ecocriticism
	Animal studies and posthumanism
	Case study: Flora and Ulysses
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index