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Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its e

Shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchston

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and th

This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the im