Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture, and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature -- 2 Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film -- 3 The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: the Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object -- 4 Between Atavism and Altruism: the Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction -- 5 The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the 1840s -- 6 Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children -- 7 Word Children -- 8 The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel -- 9 Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier -- 10 Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: the Organic Writing of the Child -- Index.
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