Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization
Awards:   Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (UK)
Author:   Dr Louise Joy (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781472577191


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization


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  • Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (UK)

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Author:   Dr Louise Joy (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781472577191


ISBN 10:   1472577191
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction Part I: The Critical Child 1. Eighteenth-century poetry and the complexity of the child's mind 2. Laughter and the permission to critique Part II: The Art of Idealisation 3. On seeing: Kate Greenaway's Under the Window 4. On crying: E. Nesbit's The Railway Children 5. On being (bored): Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows 6. On talking: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit 7. On loving: Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Series Coda Works Cited Index

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Critically robust enough for seasoned scholars yet easily understandable for those new to the subject, this volume will be indispensable for everyone who studies or teaches children's literature. * CHOICE *


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Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).

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