Coming of Age in Children's Literature

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Margaret Meek Spencer

Verlag:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35815460

EAN: 9780826477576

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 26.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 90.–

Beschreibung

Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic. "Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.