Children's play in literature : investigating the strengths and the subversions of the playing child /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kelley, Joyce E. (Editor)
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
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.