Audacious Kids

The Classic American Children's Story
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1457-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

The definitive book-length study of the great classics of American children’s literature, now updated for a new century.

Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children’s Literature Association

Often called the Golden Age of Children’s Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote some of their finest work primarily for children. In Audacious Kids, Jerry Griswold provides a groundbreaking and lucid study of twelve of these classic American children’s tales, including such time-honored stories as Little Women, Tom Sawyer, The Secret Garden, and The Wizard of Oz.

Griswold’s most remarkable insight is that, fundamentally, these twelve books all tell essentially the same story: a child is orphaned, makes a journey, is adopted and harassed by adults, and eventually triumphs over them and comes into his or her own. Griswold, a leading figure in the study of children’s literature, also reveals that these tales emphasize motifs that are distinctly American, such as positive thinking, concern with health, and the concealment of sex and violence, and he shows how these secular parables replaced religion with psychology and preached gospels of emotional self-control and optimism.

In this revised edition, which is aimed at students, scholars, and general readers, Griswold has updated the text throughout and added a new preface, introduction, and select bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griswold, Jerry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 2014
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction 2014: A History of American Children's Literature
Introduction to the First Edition: Fundamental Similarities among Twelve American Children's Books
Part One: Oedipal Patterns
1. There's No Place but Home The Wizard of Oz
2. The Long Parricidal Dream Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Spinster Aunt, Sugar Daddy, and Child- Woman Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Part Two: Manuals of Republicanism
4. Motherland, Fatherland, or Oedipal Politics Little Lord Fauntleroy
5. Ur of the Ur- Stories Tarzan of the Apes
6. Impostors, Succession, and Faux Histories The Prince andthe Pauper
7. Remorse and Regrets The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8. Bosom Enemies Little Women
9. Bread and Circuses Toby Tyler
Part Four: The Gospel of Optimism
10. Sunny Land, Angry Waters Hans Brinker
11. Positive Thinking The Secret Garden
12. Radical Innocence Pollyanna
Afterword to the First Edition
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Griswold, Jerry
Jerry Griswold was the director of the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature and a professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. He was the author of several books and more than two hundred published articles.

Jerry Griswold is professor emeritus of literature at San Diego State University and former director of the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. He is the author of seven books, including Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children’s Literature, also published by Johns Hopkins.