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The Child Savage, 1890Â2010: From Comics to Games

Product Description: Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media...read more

By Elisabeth Wesseling (editor)

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9781409455981, titled "The Child Savage, 1890â2010: From Comics to Games" | Ashgate Pub Co, March 8, 2016, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media.

Stories of Childhood: Evolving Portrayals in Books and Films

By Dean W. Duncan

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9780786471324 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 20, 2015, cover price $45.00

Discovering the Hidden Figure of a Child in Shakespeare's Sonnets As the Key to a New Interpretation: From Literary Analysis to Historical Detection

Product Description: A new interpretation that challenges widely accepted beliefs about Shakespeare's Sonnets. The cast of characters increase as this study advances the procreation theme. The author deems it essential to our understanding of the Sonnets to try to re-imagine the situations behind the poems and explores the plausibility and potential of a 'realist' approach, while maintaining scholarly skepticism where appropriate, in order to advance the autobiographical "plot" behind the Sonnets...read more

By Penny Mccarthy

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9781495503030 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $179.95 | About this edition: A new interpretation that challenges widely accepted beliefs about Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

By Catherine Waters (editor)

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9781472423818 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 3, 2015, cover price $104.95

Representing Children in Chinese and U.s. Children's Literature

By Rebecca Morris (editor)

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9781472424211 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 28, 2014, cover price $149.95

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child: Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child

By Amberyl Malkovich

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Hardcover:

9780415899086 | Routledge, December 18, 2012, cover price $145.00

Paperback:

9781138850781 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $48.95

Animality and Children's Literature and Film

By Amy Ratelle

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9781137373151 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2014, cover price $95.00

The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and Its Criticism

Product Description: Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, BrontÃ«, Austen and Rossetti...read more

By Neil Cocks

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9781137452443 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 29, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives.

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History

Product Description: Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day...read more

By Katie Knowles

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9781137005366 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 17, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.

Childness and the Writing of the German Past: Tropes of Childhood in Contemporary German Literature

Product Description: This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their engagements with Germanyâs National Socialist past, including the remembrance and representation of the Holocaust, German suffering and trauma, and the National Socialist âeverydayâ...read more

By Nora Maguire

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9783034308809 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 27, 2013, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature.

Ruskin Bond's World: Thematic Influences of Nature, Children, and Love in His Major Works

Product Description: Ruskin Bond has won the hearts of millions of readers with his countless charming short stories and introspective novels. From biographical tales about acting as a grandfather to children, to tales of unrequited love, the cross-cultural dimensions of Indian society, and the power and beauty of nature, Bond's more than forty novels and short story collections have made him an internationally acclaimed author...read more

By Gulnaz Fatma

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9781615991990 | Modern History Pr, November 30, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ruskin Bond has won the hearts of millions of readers with his countless charming short stories and introspective novels.

Reading the Child in Children's Literature: An Heretical Approach

Product Description: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature...read more

By David Rudd

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9781137322357 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature.

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9781137322340 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature.

The Gothic Child

Product Description: The fascination with dark and deathly threatening spaces, with looming towers and bloody deeds, is now accepted as characteristic of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for children and adolescents. Although this fascination dates back to the gothic genre of the mid-18th century, at that time, the gothic genre was not regarded as suitable for children or young persons in general...read more

By Margarita Georgieva

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9781137306067 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 25, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The fascination with dark and deathly threatening spaces, with looming towers and bloody deeds, is now accepted as characteristic of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for children and adolescents.

Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture

Product Description: This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination...read more

By Katharina Boehm

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9781137362490 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 27, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally.

The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England

Product Description: As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf...read more

By Blaine Greteman

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9781107038080 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 19, 2013, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf.

Chinese Literature and the Child: Children and Childhood in Late-twentieth Century Chinese Fiction

Product Description: Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.

By Kate Foster

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9781137310972, titled "Chinese Literature and the Child: Children and Childhood in Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, October 31, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels

Product Description: The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; from Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw to Peter Pan and his modern American descendant, Holden Caulfield; and finally to Lolita and Alexander Portnoy...read more

By Richard Locke

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9780231157827 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 30, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable.

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9780231157834 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 16, 2013, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable.

Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914

Product Description: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods...read more

By Christopher Parkes

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9780230364127 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 16, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism.

Dickens and Childhood

Product Description: 'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster's biography after Dickens's death. Such a revelation partly explains the dominance of biography in early Dickens criticism; Dickens's own childhood was understood to provide the material for his writing, particularly his representation of the child and childhood...read more

By Laura Peters (editor)

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9781409430414 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2012, cover price $425.00 | About this edition: 'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'.

Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture

Product Description: How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition...read more

By Ann Wierda Rowland

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9780521768146 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 9, 2012, cover price $94.99

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9781107479678 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies.

The Steve Ditko Archives 3: Mysterious Traveler

By Blake Bell (editor) and Steve Ditko

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9781606994986 | Fantagraphics Books, May 28, 2012, cover price $39.99

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9780205167517, titled "Essentials of Children''s Literature" | 2nd edition (Allyn & Bacon, January 1, 1996), cover price $37.30 | also contains Essentials of Children''s Literature

Precocious Children and Childish Adults: Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

Product Description: Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period...read more

By Claudia Nelson

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9781421405346, titled "Precocious Children & Childish Adults: Age Inversion in Victorian Literature" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults.

The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary

Product Description: The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood...read more

By Adrienne E. Gavin (editor)

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9780230348271 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts.

Monsters Under the Bed: Critically Investigating Early Years Writing

Product Description: Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for âearly yearsâ children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing, it also contains a wealth of ideas and critical advice...read more

By Andrew Melrose

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9780415617499 | Routledge, March 14, 2012, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for âearly yearsâ children.

Paperback:

9780415617505 | Routledge, March 8, 2012, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for âearly yearsâ children.

Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Product Description: Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood...read more

By Galia Benziman

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9780230293922 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.

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