{"product_id":"9781472577191","title":"Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterature's Children \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e the text rather than what he or she receives \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Age' novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children's literature entails, including \u003ci\u003eThe Railway Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e, and mid-20th-century series fiction, it demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in such texts. By bringing together ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relationships between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054672527600,"sku":"9781472577191","price":114.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472577191_p0.jpg?v=1769892761","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472577191","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}