Adulthood in Children's Literature

by Vanessa Joosen

Book Overview

While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adulthood in children's literature. Adulthood in Children's Literature demonstrates how books for young readers evoke adulthood as a stage in life, enacted by adult characters, and in relationship with the construction of childhood. Employing age...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350154814
• ISBN13: 9781350154810
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"