Ethics and children's literature /

Ethics and children's literature /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Mills, Claudia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
Series:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
Subjects:
Children's literature > Moral and ethical aspects.
Children > Books and reading.
Moral education.
Virtues in literature.
Social values in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Literature and morals.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings
  • Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children / Claudia Nelson
  • Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and José Martí Emma Otheguy
  • Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945 / Moira Hinderer
  • Part II. Ethical Themes and Theories in Classic and Contemporary Texts
  • Moral Discernment in the Chronicles of Narnia / Emmanuelle Burton
  • Ethical Recognition across Difference in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet / Mary Jeanette Moran
  • A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner / Niall Nance-Carroll
  • Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Child Characters in Contemporary Children's Literature / Jani L. Barker
  • Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s / Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
  • Part III. Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature
  • The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Children's Literature / Lisa Fraustino
  • The Lewis-Tolkien Tradition and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars / Suzanne Rahn
  • Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing Prejudice through Children's Literature / Claudia Mills
  • Part IV. Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification, Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation
  • The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice / Leona Fisher
  • Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award and Its Recipients in the Past Decade / Ramona Caponegro
  • The Moral Development of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games / Martha Rainbolt
  • Ethics and Death: Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Philosophical Discussion / Sara Goering.