Landscape in children's literature / Jane Suzanne Carroll.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Carroll, Jane Suzanne, author.

Series:

• Children's Literature and Culture
• Children's literature and culture ; 84
• Children's literature and culture series ; Volume 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
• Landscapes in literature.
• Setting (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space - sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces - that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children's fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of lands

Contents:

Cover; Landscape in Children's Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Sanctuary Topos: Sacred and Domestic Spaces; 2. The Green Topos: Gardens, Farms, Wilderness; 3. The Roadway Topos; 4. The Lapsed Topos: Caves, Graves, and Ruins; 5. Applications; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.
• Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-136-32117-9
• 1-283-54730-9
• 9786613859754
• 1-136-32118-7
• 0-203-12042-6

OCLC:

829462064