{"title":"Children's Literature and Children's Literature Scholarship: The British Perspective","authors":"P. Hunt","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Children's book scholars in the early 1970s had limited resources and no recognition in universities. This paper describes the academic context of the first appearance of Children's Literature and the reactions to it. Its influence then and now is attested by the personal opinions of scholars who were there at the time and younger scholars who use the journal today.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"18 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45217990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery ed. by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl (review)","authors":"J. Marchant","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"318 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture by Derritt Mason (review)","authors":"Jennifer Miller","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"329 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48029854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Publications, Pickaninnies, and Literary Soup Lines: Reflections on Diversity in Children's Literature","authors":"Michelle H. Martin","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay addresses how Children's Literature engaged with diversity in its first decade, including debates over whose voices should be included and excluded, inviting and advocating for greater diversity in the scholarship, and tensions around both excellence in primary texts by and about BIPOC and excellence in scholarship in this area.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"32 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45214688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's Literature and the Rise of \"Mind Cure\": Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle by Anne Stiles (review)","authors":"Jan Susina","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"313 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46356954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass Series: A Postfeminist Fantasy of Emancipation","authors":"H. Brown","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the portrayal of female characters overcoming victimization in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling high fantasy Throne of Glass (2012-18) septet. It argues that the series highlights problematic aspects of a poststructuralist-based postfeminism and ultimately reinstates the \"victim-blaming\" narratives it strives to subvert.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"248 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45209008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to Love the Everyday: The Idyllic Mood of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows","authors":"Carson Eschmann","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a reevaluation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed by developments in affect theory, theories of everyday life, and feminist care ethics. The essay argues that Grahame's text functions as a work of interventionist, rather than escapist, literature by offering alternative forms of attachment to domesticity, routine, and hospitality.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"163 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44349982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out and About in Children's Literature Studies","authors":"Kenneth B. Kidd","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reviews the emergence and diversification of LGBTQ+ approaches to children's literature from the early 1990s to the current moment.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"73 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}