Time has passed since 'having a PhD in children's literature' was a funny joke in You've Got Mail. Children's literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and has a bright future ahead as children's writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature. It offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, including a mixture of empirical and theoretical research at the intersection of education and literary studies.

About the Author
Clementine Beauvais, Lecturer, University of York. Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Research and Teaching Centre for Children's Literature, University of Cambridge.


Book Information
ISBN 9781399508810
Author Clementine Beauvais
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press