Coming of Age in Children's Literature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark
- ISBN-10
- 0826477577
- ISBN-13
- 9780826477576
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 197
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-01
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Authors
- Victor Watson, Margaret Meek Spencer
Description
Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?" Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.
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