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  1. Talking animals in children's fiction
    a critical study
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain... more

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    "Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power"--

     

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  2. Reading the child in children's literature
    an heretical approach
    Author: Rudd, David
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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  3. A hundred years of The secret garden
    Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic revisited
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  V&R Unipress, Göttingen

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783847100546; 9783847000549
    Series: Representations & reflections ; 9
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Gardens in literature
    Other subjects: Burnett, Frances Hodgson / 1849-1924 / Secret garden; Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924): The secret garden
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (187 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references

  4. OUT OF REACH
    the ideal girl in american girls' series
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, [S.l.]

    Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literaturetraces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion... more

     

    Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literaturetraces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the trope retain its power through cultural shifts? Drawing from six popular girls' series that span thetwentieth century, Kate G. Harper explores the role of girls' series in constructing a narrow ideal of girlhood, one that is out of reach for the average American girl reader. Girls' series reveal how, over time, the ideal girl trope strengthens and becomes naturalized through constant reiteration. From the transitional girl at the turn of the century in Dorothy Dale to the "liberated" romantic of Sweet Valley High, these texts provide girls with an appealing model of girlhood, urging all girls to aspire to the unattainable ideal. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the ideal girl trope accommodates social changes, taking in that which makes it stronger and further solidifying its core

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781000682526; 1000682528; 9781000682885; 1000682889; 9781000682700; 1000682706; 9780429317897; 0429317891
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    Series: Children's Literature and Culture Ser
    Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Girls in literature; Children's literature in series / History and criticism; Girls / Books and reading / United States / History / 20th century
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  5. Turning the pages of American girlhood
    the evolution of girls' series fiction, 1865 - 1930
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson

    Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change. The book adds to the existing... more

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    Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change. The book adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries"--Provided by publisher

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786463220; 0786463228
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Girls in literature; Girls / Books and reading / United States / History / 19th century; Girls / Books and reading / United States / History / 20th century; Children's literature in series / History and criticism; Serialized fiction / United States / History and criticism; American fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Geschichte; Mädchen <Motiv>; Frau; Soziale Rolle; Kinderliteratur
    Scope: X, 254 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Learning to be an angel: religion and reading for nineteenth-century American girls -- Angels in the house: Christian womanhood and community power in postbellum girls' series -- A revolution in series production: Edward Stratemeyer and the commodification of series books -- Communities of friends: series heroines as consumers, 1901-1930. two miles forward, one mile back: gender battles -- During the Great War -- Running the gamut and the gauntlet: World War I. Series as a catalyst for change in the cultural landscape of American girlhood -- Taking advantage of new markets: Ruth Fielding as a motion picture screenwriter, producer, and executive -- Conclusion: Nancy Drew and a new era -- Appendix: Series books in order of publication

  6. Mary carries on
    reflections on some favourite girls' stories
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Girls Gone By Publishers, Bath

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  7. Women writers of children's classics
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Northcote, Tavistock

    A study of four major female 19th century children's writers: Juliana Ewing, Louisa Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit who projected onto posterity a halcyon image of Victorian childhood which, juxtaposed with their turbulent lives,... more

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    A study of four major female 19th century children's writers: Juliana Ewing, Louisa Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit who projected onto posterity a halcyon image of Victorian childhood which, juxtaposed with their turbulent lives, reflected the contradictions and conflicts of the Victorian age

     

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  8. One earth, one people
    the mythopoeic fantasy series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]

    "Presents the genre from a holistic perspective, arguing that this subgenre of fantasy literature is misunderstood as result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. Asserts mythopoeic fantasy is the most complete literary... more

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    "Presents the genre from a holistic perspective, arguing that this subgenre of fantasy literature is misunderstood as result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. Asserts mythopoeic fantasy is the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural powers and could transform social consciousness with renewed emphasis on anticipating the future"--Provided by publisher

     

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    Contributor: Attebery, Brian
    Language: English
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    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 6
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American / History and criticism; Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Myth in literature; Children's stories, American; Fantasy fiction, American; Myth in literature; Fantastische Literatur
    Other subjects: Le Guin, Ursula K. / 1929- / Earthsea cycle; Alexander, Lloyd / Chronicles of Prydain; Card, Orson Scott / Tales of Alvin Maker; L'Engle, Madeleine / Criticism and interpretation; Alexander, Lloyd: Chronicles of Prydain; Card, Orson Scott: Tales of Alvin Maker; Le Guin, Ursula K. <1929->: Earthsea cycle; L'Engle, Madeleine; Alexander, Lloyd (1924-2007): The chronicles of Prydain; Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929-2018): Earthsea
    Scope: VII, 263 Seiten, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index

    The confusion over fantasy and the confusions of the theoretical era -- Reductionist and holistic criticisms in a battle of worldviews -- Mythopoeic fantasy as a modern genre -- Twentieth-century rehabilitation of myth and the search for a new story -- Rediscovering harmony : Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea sequence (1964-2001) -- Bridging the past with the future : Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles (1964-1973) -- Integrating science and spirituality : Madeleine L'Engle's Time quartet (1962-1986) -- Reconnecting with nature : Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker (1987-2003)

  9. Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury UK :, London, England ; Bloomsbury Publishing

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  10. Reading the child in children's literature
    an heretical approach
    Author: Rudd, David
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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  11. Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader... more

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    Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511485664
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 134
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Girls in literature; American fiction / Women authors / History and criticism; American fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Young adult fiction, American / History and criticism; Girls / Books and reading / United States; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Women and literature / United States; Konsumerismus; Mädchenliteratur; Leseverhalten
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 167 Seiten)
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    Introduction: "Buying into womanhood" -- pt. 1. Emergence. The fate of modesty -- Magazines and money -- Dramas of exclusion -- pt. 2. Fulfillment. Romantic speculations -- Preparing for leisure -- Serial pleasures -- pt. 3. Revision. The clean and the dirty -- "Black Tuesday" -- Conclusion

  12. Audacious kids
    coming of age in America's classic children's books
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York [u.a.]

    There's no place but home : The wizard of Oz -- The long parricidal dream : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Spinster aunt, sugar daddy, and child-woman : Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- Motherland, fatherland, or oedipal politics : Little Lord... more

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    There's no place but home : The wizard of Oz -- The long parricidal dream : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Spinster aunt, sugar daddy, and child-woman : Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- Motherland, fatherland, or oedipal politics : Little Lord Fauntleroy -- Ur of the Ur-stories : Tarzan of the apes -- Impostors, succession, and faux histories : The prince and the pauper -- Remorse and regrets : The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Bosom enemies : Little women -- Bread and circuses : Toby Tyler -- Sunny land, angry waters : Hans Brinker -- Positive thinking : The secret garden -- Radical innocence : Pollyanna. Griswold examines twelve classics of children's literature and determines that each has a concealed wish to "overthrow parents" which makes these classics particularly American

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0195058887
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Literature; Children's stories, American; Children
    Scope: XIV, 285 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  13. Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader... more

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    Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike

     

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    ISBN: 9780511485664
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 134
    Subjects: Children's stories, American / History and criticism; Girls in literature; American fiction / Women authors / History and criticism; American fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Young adult fiction, American / History and criticism; Girls / Books and reading / United States; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Women and literature / United States; Konsumerismus; Mädchenliteratur; Leseverhalten
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 167 Seiten)
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    Introduction: "Buying into womanhood" -- pt. 1. Emergence. The fate of modesty -- Magazines and money -- Dramas of exclusion -- pt. 2. Fulfillment. Romantic speculations -- Preparing for leisure -- Serial pleasures -- pt. 3. Revision. The clean and the dirty -- "Black Tuesday" -- Conclusion

  14. Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

    As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on... more

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    As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on Freudian and Lacanian anxiety models to investigate the psychological and political significance of this curious juxtaposition, as it stands out in Golden Age novels from both sides of the Atlantic and their present-day adaptations. The stories discussed in detail, so the argument goes, identify specific anxieties and forms of anxiety management as integral elements of hegemonial middle-class identity. Apart from its audacious link between psychoanalysis and Marxist, feminist, as well as postcolonial ideology criticism, this study provides a nuanced analysis of the ways in which allegedly trivial texts negotiate questions of individual and (trans)national identities. In doing so, it offers a fresh look at beloved tales like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan, contributes to the dynamic field of adaptation studies and highlights the necessity to approach children's entertainment more seriously and more sensitively than it is generally the case

     

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