Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity. The ten original chapters have been written especially for this volume by some of the most eminent writers on childhood in their fields: psychology (Valerie Walkerdine; Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers), history (Jenny Bourne Taylor; Kimberly Reynolds; Paul Yates), critical theory (Erica Burman), literary criticism (Margarida Morgado; Sara Thornton), children's literature criticism (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein; Stephen Thomson), and film and drama theory (Joe Kelleher).
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature
Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film
The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: The Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object
Between Atavism and Altruism: The Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction
The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the Eighteen-Forties
Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children
Word Children
The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel
Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier?
Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: The Organic Writing of the Child
Index
KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN is a Lecturer in English, American, and Children's Literature at the University of Reading, as well as being an Associate Director of the University's Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL). Her research interests are in the areas of critical and literary theory, psychoanalysis, childhood, and children's literature, but she is primarily interested in working in the social sciences and humanities from an inter-and multi - disciplinary perspective. Her publications include: Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child (Clarendon Press, 1994); The international Companion Encyclopaedia to Children's Literature (Routledge, 1997); Literature and the Environment (Zed Books, forthcoming 1997).
Description
Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity. The ten original chapters have been written especially for this volume by some of the most eminent writers on childhood in their fields: psychology (Valerie Walkerdine; Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers), history (Jenny Bourne Taylor; Kimberly Reynolds; Paul Yates), critical theory (Erica Burman), literary criticism (Margarida Morgado; Sara Thornton), children's literature criticism (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein; Stephen Thomson), and film and drama theory (Joe Kelleher).
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature
Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film
The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: The Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object
Between Atavism and Altruism: The Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction
The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the Eighteen-Forties
Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children
Word Children
The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel
Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier?
Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: The Organic Writing of the Child
Index
Authors
KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN is a Lecturer in English, American, and Children's Literature at the University of Reading, as well as being an Associate Director of the University's Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL). Her research interests are in the areas of critical and literary theory, psychoanalysis, childhood, and children's literature, but she is primarily interested in working in the social sciences and humanities from an inter-and multi - disciplinary perspective. Her publications include: Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child (Clarendon Press, 1994); The international Companion Encyclopaedia to Children's Literature (Routledge, 1997); Literature and the Environment (Zed Books, forthcoming 1997).
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