Children’s Literature 2021 HIGHLIGHTS POSITIONING POOH
HARRY POTTER AND BEYOND
Edward Bear after 100 Years
On J.K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions
Jul 2021 218pp 9781496834119 Paperback US$30.00 9781496834102 Hardback US$99.00 Children’s Literature Association Series
Jun 2020 192pp 9781643360874 Paperback US$19.99 9781643360867 Hardback US$59.99
The University of South Carolina Press
Little House and Beyond
Edited by Jennifer Harrison
Tison Pugh
Explores J.K. Rowling’s beloved bestselling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Along with the seven foundational novels of the Harry Potter series, this book assesses the extraordinary range of supplementary material concerning the young wizard and his allies.
RECONSIDERING LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Argues the doings of Winnie-the-Pooh remain relevant for readers in a post human, information-centric, media-saturated, globalised age. The first volume to offer different perspectives from multiple authors on the Pooh books in a single collection, focusing on approaches that bring this classic of children’s literature into the current era. University Press of Mississippi
Edited by Miranda A. Green-Barteet & Anne K. Phillips 2019 240pp 9781496823083 Paperback US$30.00 9781496823076 Hardback US$99.00 Children’s Literature Association Series
Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder’s writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials. University Press of Mississippi
101 MIDDLE EASTERN TALES AND THEIR IMPACT ON WESTERN ORAL TRADITION
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND AND HIS MAGICAL TALES
Ulrich Marzolph
Edited by Jack Zipes
Aug 2020 720pp 9780814347737 Paperback US$49.99 9780814347744 Hardback US$99.99 Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, this work surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures. Wayne State University Press
ALICE BEYOND WONDERLAND Essays for the Twenty-First Century
Sep 2020 204pp 9780814347850 Paperback US$32.99 9780814347867 Hardback US$82.99 Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Jack Zipes has selected these tales from five different books and has arranged them thematically. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history. BESTSELLER
2017 264pp 9781609385132 Paperback US$27.50
DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
Considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Lewis Carroll’s 19th-century story on the high-tech, post-industrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.
Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature Roberta Seelinga Trites
University of Iowa Press
2004 208pp 9780877458579 Paperback US$21.00
BANDERSNATCH
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings Diana Pavlac Glyer
2016 224pp 9781606352762 Paperback US$24.95
Beautifully illustrated by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford. It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of this literary circle. The Kent State University Press
The author expands the notion of the young adult novel as a coming-of-age story. She chronicles the dynamics of power and repression, revealing that characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institution in which adolescents function. University of Iowa Press
The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies Jan M. Ziolkowski
2009 512pp 9780472033799 Paperback US$34.95
Explores the links between tales preserved in Latin from the Middle Ages and ‘classic’ fairy tales from the collections of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. University of Michigan Press
THE LION IN THE WASTE LAND
Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot Janice Brown
Wayne State University Press
Edited by Cristopher Hollingsworth
BESTSELLER
FAIRY TALES FROM BEFORE FAIRY TALES
2018 216pp 9781606353387 Hardback US$45.00
Explores the personal dynamic between C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot, and their misgivings about taking on the role of Christian apologist during the height of the London Blitz. The Kent State University Press
MARK TWAIN
The Complete Interviews Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
May 2020 736pp, 22 b&w images 9780817359959 Paperback US$39.95 American Literary Realism & Naturalism
Features interviews with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humour, race relations, and his impressions of other writers. The University of Alabama Press
Following the Equator, Then and Now Susan K. Harris
Mar 2020 184pp 9780817359676 Paperback US$29.9
Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America’s most widely studied writers. The University of Alabama Press
REALITY, MAGIC, AND OTHER LIES Fairy-Tale Film Truths Pauline Greenhill
Oct 2020 288pp, 40 b&w illustrations 9780814342220 Paperback US$32.99 9780814347867 Hardback US$82.99 Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment. Wayne State University Press
RE-ORIENTING THE FAIRY TALE
Children’s Literature Association Series Published by the University Press of Mississippi, books in this series include critical assessments of books, authors, illustrators, presses, and other entities involved in children’s and young adult literature.
AT ARM’S LENGTH
Jul 2021 128pp 9781496834591 Paperback US$30.00 9781496834584 Hardback US$99.00
Brings together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decentre existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies, and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today.
Marilisa Jiménez Garcia Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Of interest to undergraduates and seasoned critics, this work provides a broad analysis of stories for the young child and young adult, in book, film, and television. Throughout, Mike Cadden touches on important topics in children’s literature studies.
Apr 2021 230pp 9781496832481 Paperback US$30.00 9781496832474 Hardback US$99.00
Focuses on the contributions of the Puerto Rican community to American youth, approaching Latinx literature as a transnational space that provides a critical lens for examining the lingering consequences of US and Spanish colonialism for US communities of colour.
INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND FILM Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak & Zoe Jaques Jun 2020 272pp 9781496831927 Paperback US$30.00 9781496831910 Hardback US$99.00
TABLE LANDS
Testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children’s culture, and positions the field of children’s literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.
Food in Children’s Literature Kara K. Keeling & Scott T. Pollard
Jun 2020 208pp 9781496828354 Paperback US$30.00 9781496828347 Hardback US$99.00
QUEER ANXIETIES OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Edited by Mayako Murai & Luciana Cardi
Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture
Mike Cadden
Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
Apr 2020 440pp, 39 colour images 9780814345368 Paperback US$34.99 9780814345351 Hardback US$84.99
SIDE BY SIDE
A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Provides a survey of food’s function in children’s texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children’s agency.
Derritt Mason
Jun 2020 224pp 9781496830999 Paperback US$30.00 9781496830982 Hardback US$99.00
Argues that the themes that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the promise that ‘It Gets Better’, and the threat that it might not - challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people’s media.
RACE IN YOUNG ADULT SPECULATIVE FICTION
Wayne State University Press
BESTSELLER
Edited by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey & Miranda A. Green-Barteet
THE WIZARD OF OZ
May 2021 253pp 9781496833822 Paperback US$30.00 9781496833815 Hardback US$99.00
Kansas Centennial Edition L. Frank Baum
1999 194pp, 25 illustrations 9780700611515 Paperback US$12.95
Throughout a century of remarkable change, L. Frank Baum’s classic tale has been embraced by generations of children and the young at heart. This special anniversary edition combines Baum’s original text with the contributions of Michael McCurdy and Ray Bradbury.
TWENTY-FIRSTCENTURY FEMINISMS IN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
Considers how characters of colour are represented in young adult speculative fiction (YASF), how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.
University Press of Kansas
Roberta Seelinger Trites
2019 242pp 9781496823458 Paperback US$30.00
Over twenty years after the publication of her ground-breaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyse how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism.
University Press of Mississippi
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