Curiouser: on the queerness of children
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This study looks at children's culture in relation to the artists Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children'…
'Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature' examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages.
This book considers theoretical issues and questions in relation to seeing childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity across a very wide range of disciplines.
"In Figures de l'épouvante grecques de l'antiquité au présent, Maria Patera examines an unfamiliar aspect of the Greek pedagogy of fear, illustrated by narratives about four Greek terrifying figures: Lamia, Mormô, Gellô and Empousa. These female bogeys belong to the children's w…
The first comprehensive examination of the language of children in literature. Makes a significant and innovative contribution to literary research.
The fascination with dark and deathly threatening spaces, with looming towers and bloody deeds, is now accepted as characteristic of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for children and adolescents. Although this fascination dates back to the gothic genre of the mid-18th…
Dickens and the imagined child
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The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In this book, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s im…