Coming of Age in Children's Literature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark

by Margaret Meek Spencer, Victor Watson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826458421
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Series:	Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Margaret Meek Spencer is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

1. A survey of the field including the work of Mark Twain, Paul Zindel, Louis Sachar and Nick Warburton.2. Phillippa Pearce 3. Cynthia Voigt4. Jan MarkIndex

Editorial 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."--Sanford Lakoff

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