Coming of Age in Children's Literature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark
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Coming of Age in Children's Literature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark
By (Author) Margaret Meek Spencer
By (author) Victor Watson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
27th November 2003
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
820.9982
Physical Properties
Hardback
204
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
470g
Description
Providing an examination of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents, this title includes a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres - including adventure and frontier stories, pony stories, school and holiday stories and series fiction - and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers. The authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic"
Reviews
The reader is reflectively and imaginatively involved in the dilemmas and identities of the characters. This dual focus of growth in the text and in being engaged with the text depends on self-consciousness, and parallels theh experience of teh reviewer with this enlightening book". -- Eduacational review May 2006
'...fascinating.' * Books for Keep *
Author Bio
Margaret Meek Spencer is Reader Emeritus at IOE, UCLs Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.
