Kiddie lit : the cultural construction of children's literature in America
"In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America - and recent signs of its reintegration - within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J.K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults. 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005, ©2003
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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2005, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780801881701, 9780801869006, 0801881706, 0801869005
1035826171
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.
Originally published: 2003