Children's play in literature : investigating the strengths and the subversions of the playing child /
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Caution--children at play : investigations of children's play in theory and literature / Joyce E. Kelley
- "Fits of vulgar joy" : spontaneous play in Book 1 of Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805) / Allison W. Powell
- Playing at work and working at play in Mark Twain's writings / Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks
- "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?" : children's play as the locus for imaginative imitation and cultural exchange in the plantation novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle / Joyce E. Kelley
- Words with kids at play : sculpting truth and forging childhood friendships in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris / Jericho Williams
- Idylls of play : L.M. Montgomery's child-worlds / Caroline E. Jones
- Katherine Mansfield's children at play / Janka Kascakova
- The buttons of the world are round : Gertrude Stein's toys / Michael Opest
- Playing pioneer : childhood, artistry, and play in the Little House series / Anna Lockhart
- "I'm ready to play now, you guys!" : J.D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the healing power of children's play / Andy Clinton
- Free play and the prescriptive endgames of Orson Scott Card / Tim Bryant
- Children's play and mental illness in children's literature and film / Ian Wojcik-Andrews
- "The trampoline of letters and words" : juvenile linguistic play in the memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel / Dorothy Wolff Giannakouros
- Notes on contributors
- Index.