"This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space -- sacred spaces, green space…
"While the Gothic genre has received much critical attention, and the popularity of Gothic narratives at the turn of the millennium has been analyzed in studies such as Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street, The Gothic in Children's Literature is the first book-length study …
"While the Gothic genre has received much critical attention, and the popularity of Gothic narratives at the turn of the millennium has been analyzed in studies such as Mark Edmundson's Nightmare on Main Street, The Gothic in Children's Literature is the first book-length study …
Publisher description: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Pottter is the first book-length analysis of J.K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book…
