Children's Literature€in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and€its wider contexts. It begins by in

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and North American children's literature from its seventeenth-century

Offers analysis of a wide range of narratives - oral, visual and written. The contributors include writers, academics, critics, teachers and a mu

"Playing with the Book analyzes novelty and movable publications for young children published from 1835 to 1914, specifically the panorama fold-o

Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book examines the representation of English working-class children, the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighbourhoods that a number

These distinguished essays powerfully define the myriad ways in which the Romantic image of the child, so compellingly portrayed by Wordsworth an

Warren W. Wooden's pioneering studies of early examples of children's literature throw new light on many accepted works of the English Renaissanc

Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and

Explores how the concept of childhood in the Victorian era was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as we

It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential e