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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Author:
| Meek Spencer, Margaret Watson, Victor |
Series title: | Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8264-7757-6 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Imprint: | Continuum |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $57.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.