Literature's Children The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization
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Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).Critically robust enough for seasoned scholars yet easily understandable for those new to the subject, this volume will be indispensable for everyone who studies or teaches children's literature.
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Introduction
Part I: The Critical Child
1. Eighteenth-century poetry and the complexity of the child's mind
2. Laughter and the permission to critique
Part II: The Art of Idealisation
3. On seeing: Kate Greenaway's Under the Window
4. On crying: E. Nesbit's The Railway Children
5. On being (bored): Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
6. On talking: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
7. On loving: Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Series
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Works Cited
Index
Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature seeks to expand the range and quality of research in children’s literature through publishing innovative monographs by leading and rising scholars in the field. With an emphasis on cross and inter-disciplinary studies, this series takes literary approaches as a starting point, drawing on the particular capacity for children’s literature to open out into other disciplines.
Series Editor: Lisa Sainsbury, Director for the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Roehampton University, UK.
Editorial Board: Professor Matthew O. Grenby (Newcastle University, UK), Dr Marah Gubar (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Dr Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp, Belgium).