Children in Culture Approaches to Childhood
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
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Also by Karfn Lesnik-Oberstein CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Criticism and the Fictional Child
Children in Culture Approaches to Childhood Edited by
Karfn Lesnik-Oberstein
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5eleetion and editorial matter © Karfn Lesnik-Oberstein 1998 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-71148-4 All rights reserved. No reproduetion, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Aet 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised aet in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Aet 1988. Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6X5 and 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of 5t. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United 5tates, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.
Outside North America ISBN 978-0-333-71149-1 ISBN 978-0-230-37620-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230376205 Iside North America ISBN 978-0-312-21740-2 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sourees. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-22990
To the memory of my remarkable mother Margriet Lesnik-Oberstein Bijlholt
Contents Acknowledgements
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Notes on the Contributors
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1 Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
2 Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film ]oe Kelleher
3 The Pedagogics of PostIModernity: the Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object Erica Burman
4 Between Atavism and Altruism: the Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children' s Fiction ]enny Bourne Taylor
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5 The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the 1840s Sara Thornton
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6 Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children Kimberley Reynolds and Paul Yates
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7 Word Children
Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers
8 The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel Margarida Morgado
9 Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier Valerie Walkerdine
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Contents
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10 Substitute Communities, Authentie Voiees: the Organie Writing of the Child Stephen Thomson
Index
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