Book Series
Children's Literature and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa
A Study of Contemporary Fiction
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come…
read moreNovember 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99390-6 (Routledge)
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The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature.… read moreOctober 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93629-3 (Routledge)
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Crossover Fiction
Global and Historical Perspectives
In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the…
read moreSeptember 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98033-3 (Routledge)
The Crossover Novel
Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership
While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace…
read moreAugust 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97888-0 (Routledge)
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models…
read moreJuly 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95832-5 (Routledge)
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Ways of Being Male
Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have…
read moreJune 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99515-3 (Routledge)
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre
Fiction for Children and Adults
This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students… read moreMay 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99527-6 (Routledge)
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
Perils of a Puppet in the United States
In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates… read moreApril 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99324-1 (Routledge)
Enterprising Youth
Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature
Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to…
read moreApril 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96150-9 (Routledge)
The Family in English Children’s Literature
From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might…
read moreApril 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98885-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
The Arabian Nights in Children's Literature
By ROBERT MACK
To be published March 1st 2010
Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature
By Debra Mitts-Smith
To be published November 15th 2009
Selling the Perfect Girl: Girls as Consumers, Girls as Commodities
By Mary Napoli
To be published September 15th 2009
"Juvenile" Literature and British Society, 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence
By Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson
To be published July 15th 2009
The Children's Book Business
By Lissa Paul
To be published July 1st 2009
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People: Control Shift
By Noga Applebaum
To be published July 1st 2009
Children's Fiction about 9/11: Ethnic, Heroic and National Identities
By Jo Lampert
To be published June 15th 2009
Translation under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic
By Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
To be published May 1st 2009
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches
By Hans-Heino Ewers
To be published April 20th 2009
Shakespeare in Children's Literature: Gender and Cultural Capital
By Erica Hateley
To be published December 17th 2008
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
By Kathryn James
To be published December 4th 2008
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature
Edited by Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard
To be published December 4th 2008