Ethics and Children's Literature.

By: Mills, ClaudiaContributor(s): Nelson, Professor ClaudiaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present SerPublisher: Farnham : Routledge, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781472440730Subject(s): Children -- Books and reading | Children's literature -- Moral and ethical aspects | Literature and morals | Moral education | Social justice in literature | Social values in literature | Virtues in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics and Children's LiteratureDDC classification: 809.89282 LOC classification: PN1009.A1 -- .E845 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings -- 1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children -- 2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and José Martí -- 3 Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945 -- Part II Ethical Themes in Classic and Contemporary Texts -- 4 Discernment and the Moral Life in Prince Caspian and the Later Narnia Chronicles -- 5 Making a Difference: Ethical Recognition through Otherness in Madeleine L'Engle's Fiction -- 6 A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner -- 7 Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Protagonists in Contemporary Children's Literature -- 8 Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s -- Part III Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature -- 9 The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books -- 10 Lewis, Tolkien, and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars -- 11 Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing Prejudice through Children's Literature -- Part IV Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification, Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation -- 12 The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice: An Anti-Bakhtinian View -- 13 Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award -- 14 Katniss Everdeen's Emerging Moral Consciousness in The Hunger Games -- 15 Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Ethical Discussion: Stories that Deal with Death -- Index.
Summary: Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. Even as children's literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.
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Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings -- 1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children -- 2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and José Martí -- 3 Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945 -- Part II Ethical Themes in Classic and Contemporary Texts -- 4 Discernment and the Moral Life in Prince Caspian and the Later Narnia Chronicles -- 5 Making a Difference: Ethical Recognition through Otherness in Madeleine L'Engle's Fiction -- 6 A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner -- 7 Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Protagonists in Contemporary Children's Literature -- 8 Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s -- Part III Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature -- 9 The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books -- 10 Lewis, Tolkien, and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars -- 11 Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing Prejudice through Children's Literature -- Part IV Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification, Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation -- 12 The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice: An Anti-Bakhtinian View -- 13 Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award -- 14 Katniss Everdeen's Emerging Moral Consciousness in The Hunger Games -- 15 Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Ethical Discussion: Stories that Deal with Death -- Index.

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. Even as children's literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

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