Children in culture : approaches to childhood / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in children.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

Children in Culture is a fully interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collection of ten new and original essays on theoretical approaches to childhood. In this volume, issues of or related to childhood are addressed through considering the child not as a constant biological and psychological entity, but as a culturally produced identity, which fluctuates through time and place. Although the chapters share this theoretical perspective of childhood as culturally constructed, differences of application and approach have purposely been included to give readers an opportunity to explore a variety of exciting new developments within this important field.

Contents:

1 Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein 1

2 Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film / Joe Kelleher 29

3 The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: the Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object / Erica Burman 55

4 Between Atavism and Altruism: the Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction / Jenny Bourne Taylor 89

5 The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the 1840s / Sara Thornton 122

6 Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children / Kimberley Reynolds, Paul Yates 151

7 Word Children / Rex Rogers, Wendy Stainton Rogers 178

8 The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel / Margarida Morgado 204

9 Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier / Valerie Walkerdine 231

10 Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: the Organic Writing of the Child / Stephen Thomson 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312217404

OCLC:

39085452