Children in Culture Approaches to Childhood [Hardcover]

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).Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: The Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object Between Atavism and Altruism: The Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the Eighteen-Forties Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children Word Children The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier? Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: The Organic Writing of the Child Index

...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

JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of SussexERICA BURMAN Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJOE KELLEHER Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Roehampton Institute, LondonMAARGARDA MORGADO Senior Lecturer and head of the lót