5,918円 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children's litera...

3,946円 American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twen...

11,772円 Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schoolsーat the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connectedーthis timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teac...

11,772円 This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in...

10,943円 This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.

5,173円 Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the pre...

5,970円 In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels. Michals consid...

239円 The days of Knight and Squires, of exciting adventures and romances come alive in the hilarious account of Don Quixote’s travels. A small time poor land owner, Don Quixote imagines himself placed in the world of knights. He convinces Sancho Panza, a good for nothing fellow from the same village, ...

239円 Jim Hawkin’s life of adventure began when he picked up an oilskin packet from captain Flint’s sea chest. It contained a map of an island where the captain had buried his treasure. So Jim set sail on the Hispaniola as a cabin-boy with his dream of amassing wealth. On the ship is the notorious crew...

231円 This is an exciting story of the adventures of knights and their followers in England ruled by King Richard, the Lion Heart. It is a dangerous time for the country because the noble king is away fighting enemies in a foreign land; while at home, his greedy dissatisfied brother is plotting to grab...

777円 Behind the magic of Harry Potterーa witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Can Fluffy the three-h...

13,430円 First published in 1996. The first anthology of its kind in this dynamic new field of study, this volume offers students the best of both worlds-theory and literature. Organized around specific themes to facilitate use of the text in a variety of courses, the material is highly accessible to unde...