Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children's and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children's and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Eleanor Spencer is Principal of Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne, where she is also an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communications, teaching on the English and Theatre Studies programme. She is the recipient of a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and was Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first-century British and American poetry, and children's and Young Adult fiction. Her recent publications include the New Casebook on American Poetry since 1945 (2016), and essays in Sylvia Plath in Context (2019) and A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 1960¿2015 (2020). Jade Dillon Craig is Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Young Learners at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her research interests include children's literature, Alice studies, visual texts, cinematography, and gender studies. She has published book chapters in volumes with Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, and McFarland. Her most recent publication features in Barnboken: Journal of Children's Literature Research. Jade is a project leader for eBLINK (engelske bildebøker i norske klasserom) and co-founder of the Children's Literature Education and Research group at NTNU (with Alyssa Magee Lowery).
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Foreword Ann Alston Introduction: Exploding the Nuclear Family Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig Part I: Beyond Wicked Stepmothers and Absent(-minded) Fathers 1. Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales Claudia Schwabe 2. Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood within Children's Literature: A Case Study of Katya Balen's October, October Richard Charlesworth 3. 'Shrewd sound-hearted maiden aunts': The Aunt Figure in Children's Literature Jane Suzanne Carroll 4. "What's the point of grandpa?": Grandparents in Children's Literature Vanessa Joosen Part II: Home, Nation, and Empire 5. Families Formed, Found and Fractured in the Children's Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett Elisabeth Rose Gruner 6. The Feral Child and the More-than-Human Family Jessica Straley 7. A Gift to the Family of Britain: Depictions of African, Caribbean and Black British Families in British Children's Literature after 1970 Karen Sands-O'Connor and Phyllis Ramage 8. Kinning with Picturebooks about La Frontera Macarena García-González and Evelyn Arizpe Part III: Growing Pains and Teenage Dreams 9. Bowlby, Blyton, and Child Care Issues in The Famous Five series Nicholas Tucker 10. From First Born to Second Fiddle: Empathy is an Argument if Your Name is Peter Hatcher in Judy Blume's Fudge Books Joseph Michael Sommers 11. "Mum's no fun now": Constructing the Maternal in the Family Fictions of Jacqueline Wilson Kay Waddilove 12. 'Chasing the Dragon': The Anxieties of Family in the Fiction of Melvin Burgess Alyson Miller 13. A Taste for the Secret: Tracing Secretive Families in Malorie Blackman's Fiction Blanka Grzegorczyk 14. Queering the Family in Young Adult Literature: Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End, Familial Disruption, and the Space of the Home Angel Daniel Matos Part IV: Alternative Families in Alternative Worlds 15. Lost Boys, Found Boys: Masculinities and Families in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Eleanor Spencer 16. Unhomely Domestic Spaces in Neil Gaiman's Coraline Jade Dillon Craig 17. Apple to Pomegranate: Vampires and Families in the Twilight Saga Lisa Nevarez 18. Breeders, Rebels and Warriors: The Oppression of Adolescent Mothers in the Young Adult Dystopias The Lone City trilogy and Gather the Daughters Malin Alkestrand
Foreword Ann Alston Introduction: Exploding the Nuclear Family Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig Part I: Beyond Wicked Stepmothers and Absent(-minded) Fathers 1. Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales Claudia Schwabe 2. Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood within Children's Literature: A Case Study of Katya Balen's October, October Richard Charlesworth 3. 'Shrewd sound-hearted maiden aunts': The Aunt Figure in Children's Literature Jane Suzanne Carroll 4. "What's the point of grandpa?": Grandparents in Children's Literature Vanessa Joosen Part II: Home, Nation, and Empire 5. Families Formed, Found and Fractured in the Children's Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett Elisabeth Rose Gruner 6. The Feral Child and the More-than-Human Family Jessica Straley 7. A Gift to the Family of Britain: Depictions of African, Caribbean and Black British Families in British Children's Literature after 1970 Karen Sands-O'Connor and Phyllis Ramage 8. Kinning with Picturebooks about La Frontera Macarena García-González and Evelyn Arizpe Part III: Growing Pains and Teenage Dreams 9. Bowlby, Blyton, and Child Care Issues in The Famous Five series Nicholas Tucker 10. From First Born to Second Fiddle: Empathy is an Argument if Your Name is Peter Hatcher in Judy Blume's Fudge Books Joseph Michael Sommers 11. "Mum's no fun now": Constructing the Maternal in the Family Fictions of Jacqueline Wilson Kay Waddilove 12. 'Chasing the Dragon': The Anxieties of Family in the Fiction of Melvin Burgess Alyson Miller 13. A Taste for the Secret: Tracing Secretive Families in Malorie Blackman's Fiction Blanka Grzegorczyk 14. Queering the Family in Young Adult Literature: Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End, Familial Disruption, and the Space of the Home Angel Daniel Matos Part IV: Alternative Families in Alternative Worlds 15. Lost Boys, Found Boys: Masculinities and Families in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Eleanor Spencer 16. Unhomely Domestic Spaces in Neil Gaiman's Coraline Jade Dillon Craig 17. Apple to Pomegranate: Vampires and Families in the Twilight Saga Lisa Nevarez 18. Breeders, Rebels and Warriors: The Oppression of Adolescent Mothers in the Young Adult Dystopias The Lone City trilogy and Gather the Daughters Malin Alkestrand
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