Children's Literature Collections Approaches to Research
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique vo
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This timely new series brings innovative perspectives to research on children’s literature. It offers accessible but sophisticated accounts of contemporary critical approaches and applies them to the study of a diverse range of children’s texts – literature, film and multimedia. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature includes monographs from both internationally recognised and emerging scholars. It demonstrates how new voices, new combinations of theories, and new shifts in the scholarship of literary and cultural studies illuminate the study of children’s texts.
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Keith O’Sullivan • Pádraic Whyte Editors
Children’s Literature Collections Approaches to Research
Editors Keith O’Sullivan School of English Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland
Pádraic Whyte School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature ISBN 978-1-137-60311-1 ISBN 978-1-137-59757-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59757-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016958808 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Frontispiece from The Big Tree of Bunlahy by Padraic Colum (1933) © Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved IVARO, 2017 Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.
For Ciaran (PW) For Ron and Siobhán (KO’S)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research comes out of research conducted as part of the National Collection of Children’s Books (NCCB) project: a €350,000, two-year, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research initiative, funded by the Irish Res
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