Hogwarts and All - Gothic Perspectives on Children's Literature (Paperback, New edition)

Hogwarts and All explores modern children's literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmarchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness - all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and other authors discussed in this volume - is a civilization at risk.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Gregory G Pepetone
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	236
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0060-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > History > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-0060-6
Barcode:	9781433100604

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