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2569321Adulthood in Childrens Literaturehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/adulthood-in-childrens-literature-9781350049802/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3628543/da70a2a2-0419-48ec-87e3-77a9010685e5.jpg?v=638385649016830000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3625542/da70a2a2-0419-48ec-87e3-77a9010685e5.jpg?v=638385644916400000705783MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p>While most scholars who study childrens 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 childrens literature. <em>Adulthood in Childrens Literature</em> 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 studies as a framework for analysis, this book covers a range of English and Dutch childrens books published from 1970 to the present.</p><p>Calling upon critical voices like Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Peter Hollindale, Maria Nikolajeva and Lorraine Green, and the works of such authors as Babette Cole, Philip Pullman, Ted van Lieshout, Jacqueline Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Guus Kuijer, Joosen offers a fresh perspective on childrens literature by focusing not on the child but the adult.</p>...2505362Adulthood in Childrens Literature705783https://www.gandhi.com.mx/adulthood-in-childrens-literature-9781350049802/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3628543/da70a2a2-0419-48ec-87e3-77a9010685e5.jpg?v=638385649016830000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3625542/da70a2a2-0419-48ec-87e3-77a9010685e5.jpg?v=638385644916400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189781350049802_W3siaWQiOiIwZDc3M2Q3My03YzY3LTQ3ODYtYWJlMS0wNmZiMGQwNzFiMTUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjc2MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjc3LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjY4NSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTEtMTZUMTA6MDA6MDBaIiwidG8iOiIyMDI0LTExLTMwVDIzOjU5OjU5WiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9LHsiaWQiOiI2MmZhYjdkYS0wYzNiLTRhODEtOGExZi1mY2ZkMDY5NWI4YTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjgwOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjgxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjcyOCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781350049802_<p>While most scholars who study childrens 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 childrens literature. <em>Adulthood in Childrens Literature</em> 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 studies as a framework for analysis, this book covers a range of English and Dutch childrens books published from 1970 to the present.</p><p>Calling upon critical voices like Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Peter Hollindale, Maria Nikolajeva and Lorraine Green, and the works of such authors as Babette Cole, Philip Pullman, Ted van Lieshout, Jacqueline Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Guus Kuijer, Joosen offers a fresh perspective on childrens literature by focusing not on the child but the adult.</p>...9781350049802_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_2f803f64-498c-39d6-ac85-9d8d6eab095e_9781350049802;9781350049802_9781350049802Associate ProfessorInglésMéxico2018-09-06T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing