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Children in Culture

Approaches to Childhood

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

    1. University of Reading, UK
      university’s Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL), UK

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Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity. The ten original chapters have been written especially for this volume by some of the most eminent writers on childhood in their fields: psychology (Valerie Walkerdine; Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers), history (Jenny Bourne Taylor; Kimberly Reynolds; Paul Yates), critical theory (Erica Burman), literary criticism (Margarida Morgado; Sara Thornton), children's literature criticism (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein; Stephen Thomson), and film and drama theory (Joe Kelleher).

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature

    • Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
    Pages 1-28

  3. Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film

    • Joe Kelleher
    Pages 29-54

  4. The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: the Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object

    • Erica Burman
    Pages 55-88

  5. Between Atavism and Altruism: the Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children’s Fiction

    • Jenny Bourne Taylor
    Pages 89-121

  6. The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the 1840s

    • Sara Thornton
    Pages 122-150

  7. Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children

    • Kimberley Reynolds, Paul Yates
    Pages 151-177

  8. Word Children

    • Rex Stainton Rogers, Wendy Stainton Rogers
    Pages 178-203

  9. The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel

    • Margarida Morgado
    Pages 204-230

  10. Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier?

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 231-247

  11. Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: the Organic Writing of the Child

    • Stephen Thomson
    Pages 248-273

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 274-280
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"...the type of constructivist approach assumed by the authors varies considerably from chapter to chapter, making this interdisciplinary discussion of childhood a sound testament against disciplinary isolation." - Choice

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

  • university’s Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL), UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

About the editor

JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of Sussex ERICA BURMAN Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University JOE KELLEHER Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Roehampton Institute, London MAARGARDA MORGADO Senior Lecturer and head of the English Studies Unit, Portugal KIMBERLEY REYNOLDS Reader in Children's Literature, Roehampton Institute, London REX STAINTON ROGERS Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading WENDY STAINTON ROGERS Senior Lecturer in the School of health and Social Welfare, Open University STEPHEN THOMSON Lecturer in English, University of Glasgow SARA THORNTON Senior Lecturer, University of Picardy-Jules Verne, France VALERIE WALKERDINE Professor of Critical Psychology and head of the Division, University of Western Sydney, Australia PAUL YATES Lecturer in the Graduate research Centre for Education, University of Sussex

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