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Can I read Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature) on EtoBox?

Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature) by Joy, Louise is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature) about?

"Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Age' novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children's literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Wind in th

Who reads Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Joy, Louise
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781350178243
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy
Updated
2026-03-25