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Tag: childrens literature

A painting depicting a scene from Dream of the Red Chamber
Language and Literature

An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”

posted by Kevin Worrall September 6, 20218 min read195 Views

by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the…

Cultural Studies

Reading the War on Terror in Moroccan Picture Books

posted by Teri Williams April 12, 20218 min read250 Views

By Sara Austin and Ann Wainscott We met at New Faculty Orientation in 2018. Sara was seated across a large…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

posted by Teri Williams January 7, 20219 min read129 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two

posted by Teri Williams January 6, 20215 min read127 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 1 of this blog series. Much Ado about Witchcraft in The History…

Cute Ecologies: Beatrix Potter, Mushrooms and Miniature Worlds
Language and Literature

Cute Ecologies: Beatrix Potter, Mushrooms and Miniature Worlds

posted by Teri Williams December 12, 20196 min read1054 Views

Once known primarily as the author of ‘twee’ children’s books about fastidious mice and naughty rabbits, Beatrix Potter has gained…

Hans Christian Andersen in 1860
Language and Literature

Intergenerational Desire in/and Children’s Literature

posted by Teri Williams March 19, 201811 min read1939 Views

It is with some trepidation, but also with a great sense of urgency, that we present a modest collection of…

History

Children’s Gothic Fiction – Top 10 Must Reads

posted by Carla Hepburn October 31, 20176 min read7227 Views

By Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley While researching my forthcoming book, Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic, I have read a lot of scary stories…

Cultural Studies

100 Years Since the Russian Revolution

posted by Rebecca Wojturska October 6, 20174 min read2229 Views

Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…

Language and Literature

Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ and Charisma in the British Empire

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals August 13, 20153 min read2818 Views

Although he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling’s ‘publicly pronounced racist and imperialist attitudes have’, as…

Language and Literature

Celebrating eight years of International Research in Children’s Literature

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals August 9, 20155 min read1908 Views

By John Stephens, General Editor In its first eight years of publication, International Research in Children’s Literature (IRCL) has established…

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