Space and place in children's literature, 1789 to the present
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Bibliographic Information
Space and place in children's literature, 1789 to the present
(Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present)
Routledge, 2019, c2015
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First issued in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children's book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldua, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child's relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children's literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play
Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults
1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt
2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh Barai
Part 2 Real-World Places
3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano
4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi
5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD Elzette Steenkamp
Part 3 Traversing the Imaginary
6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire
7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet Ruth Feingold
8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot Stafford
Part 4 Book Space
9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field
10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine Renaud
Epilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman
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