Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature (Children's Literature Association Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496813375 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Wide-ranging, well informed, and replete with fascinating detail, Between Generations considers Victorian and Edwardian children as active listeners and speakers, illustrators, writing partners, and critics of literary productions. Victoria Ford Smith’s study is a valuable contribution to the growing number of studies demonstrating that far from maintaining a decorous silence in the presence of their elders, children in the long nineteenth century were both seen and heardand the publications that they helped to shape profited in ways that we are still learning to appreciate.”Claudia Nelson, professor of English and Claudius M. Easley, Jr., Faculty Fellow of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University“Between Generations is deeply revelatory, transforming our sense of the Golden Age of children&r
. Her work has appeared in Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Dickens Studies Annual, and she serves as book review coeditor for The Lion and the Unicorn. Victoria Ford Smith, Manchester, Connecticut, is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses on children’s, young adult, and British literature and culture
These literary collaborations were part of a growing interest in child agency evident in cultural, social, and scientific discourses of the time. . Examining the publication histories of both canonical and lesser-known Golden Age texts reveals that children collaborated with adult authors as active listeners, coauthors, critics, illustrators, and even small-scale publishers. Between Generations puts these creative partnerships in conversation with collaborations in other fields, including child study, educational policy, library history, and toy culture. Taken together, these collaborations illuminate how Victorians used new critical approaches to childhood to theorize young people as viable social actors. Smith’s work not only recognizes Victorian children as literary collaborators but also interrogates how those creative partnerships reflect and influence adult-child relationships in the world beyond books. Between Generations breaks the critical impasse that understands children’s literature a