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Precocious Children and Childish Adults
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Claudia Nelson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-02 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary
Precocious Children and Childish Adults
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Claudia Nelson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-02 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary
Adulthood in Children's Literature
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Vanessa Joosen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on
Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-09 - Publisher: Routledge

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Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of powe
Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations
Language: en
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Authors: Jasmin Sültemeyer
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As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depic