Inventing the Child
Author:   John Zornado
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138142053


Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Zornado
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138142053


ISBN 10:   1138142050
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. History as Human Relationship 2. Freud, Shakespeare and Hamlet as Children's Literature 3. The Brothers Grimm: The Black Pedagogy and the Roots of Fascist Culture 4. Victorian Imperialsim and the Golden Age of Children's Literature 5. Walt Disney, Ideological Transposition and the Child 6. Maurice Sendak and the Detachment Child 7. Conclusion: The Etiology of Consumerism

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Inventing the Child will be an insightful read for anyone interested in children's literature and children's psychological development. -- Choice This book is passionate, accessible, often clever, and always irreverent discussion of the ways that child-rearing pedagogy has shaped not only children's books in the western tradition but 'the story of childhood' itself. -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly


Inventing the Child will be an insightful read for anyone interested in children's literature and children's psychological development. -- Choice This book is passionate, accessible, often clever, and always irreverent discussion of the ways that child-rearing pedagogy has shaped not only children's books in the western tradition but 'the story of childhood' itself. -- Children's Literature AssociationQuarterly


"""Inventing the Child will be an insightful read for anyone interested in children's literature and children's psychological development."" -- Choice ""This book is passionate, accessible, often clever, and always irreverent discussion of the ways that child-rearing pedagogy has shaped not only children's books in the western tradition but 'the story of childhood' itself."" -- Children's Literature AssociationQuarterly"


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John Zornado is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College .

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