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Description

1. vii, 247 pages : illustration; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Age' novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children's literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit, and mid-20th-century series fiction, it demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in such texts. By bringing together ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relationships between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism"--

Series statement

1. Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Uniform title

1. Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Children's literature, English > History and criticism
3. Children > Books and reading > History
4. Reader-response criticism
5. Children's literature
6. Children's stories
7. Didactic literature
8. Education > Philosophy
9. Literature > Aesthetics

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. Didacticism -- The child as critic -- Critical thinking -- The child in thought -- Practical criticism -- Literature's children -- Part 1. The critical child. Eighteenth-century children's poetry and the complexity of the child's mind -- Laughter and the permission to critique -- Part 2. The art of idealization. On seeing : Kate Greenaway's Under the window -- On crying : E. Nesbit's The railway children -- On being (bored) : Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows -- On talking : J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit -- On loving : Malcolm Saville's Lone pine series -- Coda.

Call number

1. JFE 19-6346

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.

Author

1. Joy, Louise, 1979- author.

Title

1. Literature's children : the critical child and the art of idealization / Louise Joy.

Publisher

1. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature
2. Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Other form:

1. Online version: Joy, Louise, 1979- author. Literature's children London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781472577207 (DLC) 2019007945

LCCN

1. 2018058748

Other standard identifier

1. 40028945507

ISBN

1. 9781472577191 hardcover
2. 1472577191 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 19-6346