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Play Of Belief In Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales And Fairy Narratives

by Laura White

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 The Play of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales and Fairy Narratives examines the range of playful negotiations with truth claims in British and American fantasies for children of the nineteenth century within the context of the eraâ€™s ebbing Christian commitments and competing forces for belief and disenchantment.
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Gender By The Book - 21st-Century French Children'S Literature

by Julie Fette

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 It investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to children. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three institutions â€" libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines.
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The Play Of Belief In Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales And Fairy Narratives

by Laura White

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 The Play of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales and Fairy Narratives examines the range of playful negotiations with truth claims in British and American fantasies for children of the nineteenth century within the context of the eraâ€™s ebbing Christian commitments and competing forces for belief and disenchantment.
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods - Being And Becoming A Viral Child

by Bryoni (Unsw, Australia) Trezise

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 The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how childrenâ€™s and young peopleâ€™s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.
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Male Homosexuality In Childrenâ€™S Literature, 1867â€“1918 - The Young Uranians

by Eric L. Tribunella

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 Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
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Representing Children In Chinese And U.S. Children'S Literature

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 Bringing together childrenâ€™s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. Wide-ranging and ambitious in its encouragement of communication between Ch
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Ethics And Children'S Literature

by Claudia Mills

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 Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about childrenâ€™s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. Even as childrenâ€™s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didact
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Gender By The Book - 21st-Century French Children'S Literature

by Julie Fette

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 It investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to children. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three institutions â€" libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines.
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods - Being And Becoming A Viral Child

by Bryoni Trezise

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF

 The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how childrenâ€™s and young peopleâ€™s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods - Being And Becoming A Viral Child

by Bryoni Trezise

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF

 The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how childrenâ€™s and young peopleâ€™s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.
Male Homosexuality In Children'S Literature, 1867-1918 - The Young Uranians

by Eric L. Tribunella

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF

 Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
Male Homosexuality In Children'S Literature, 1867-1918 - The Young Uranians

by Eric L. Tribunella

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF

 Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
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Performing Contemporary Childhoods - Being And Becoming A Viral Child

by Bryoni (Unsw, Australia) Trezise

~~209,54€~~ 167,63€ 20% OFF

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 The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how childrenâ€™s and young peopleâ€™s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.
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Male Homosexuality In Childrenâ€™S Literature, 1867â€“1918 - The Young Uranians

by Eric L. Tribunella

~~209,54€~~ 167,63€ 20% OFF

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 Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
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Childhood In The Contemporary English Novel

by Sandra Dinter

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 Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend.
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Victorian Coral Islands Of Empire, Mission, And The Boysâ€™ Adventure Novel

by Michelle Elleray

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 Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms from 1840-1880, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of the adventure novel and British missionary efforts.
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Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants - Reproduction And The Future In Ibsenâ€™S Late Plays

by Olivia Gunn

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 Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants intervenes in scholarly debates in child studies by arguing that the empty bourgeois nursery is a better symbol for innocence than the child.
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Nineteenth-Century Fictions Of Childhood And The Politics Of Play

by Michelle Beissel Heath

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 Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century childrenâ€™s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as "playful literary citizenship," or some of t
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Transdisciplinary Perspectives On Childhood In Contemporary Britain - Literature, Media And Society

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 Focusing on the late 20th and the early 21st centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the UK. Chapters address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, p
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Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia - Books, Toys, And Contemporary Media Culture

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 Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child.
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The Aesthetics Of Children'S Poetry - A Study Of Children'S Verse In English

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 Focusing on the literary, aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, this collection encompasses central figures like Watts, Carroll, Rossetti, Milne, and Duffy, reasserting the literary significance of landmark but often marginalized authors from the past three centuries
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Space And Place In Children?S Literature, 1789 To The Present

by Hannah Field, Malini Roy e Maria Sachiko Cecire

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 Focusing on questions of space and locale in childrenâ€™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 contributors, who include Philip Pullman discussing his relationship to space and locale, analyze work
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Gaming Empire In Children'S British Board Games, 1836-1860

by Megan A. Norcia

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 Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner.
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Childrenâ€™S Play In Literature - Investigating The Strengths And The Subversions Of The Playing Child

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 This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play.
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