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Kiddie lit : the cultural construction of children's literature in America / Beverly Lyon Clark.

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While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension, and moralizing." "Clark's st...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Clark, Beverly Lyon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Children's literature, American > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Children's literature, English > Appreciation > United States.
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading > English-speaking countries.
Children in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Table of Contents:
  • Kids and kiddie lit
  • What Fauntleroy knew
  • Kiddie lit in the academy
  • The case of the boys' book : whitewashing Huck
  • The case of the girls' book : Jo's girls
  • The case of American fantasy : there's no place like Oz
  • The case of British fantasy imports : Alice and Harry in America
  • The case of the Disney version.

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