This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of
landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the
integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or
topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space - sacred
spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces - that are the
component elements of the physical environments of canonical
British children's fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising
Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the
development of the physical features and symbolic functions of
landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval
vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The
identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent
theories about interstitial space together with earlier
morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of
fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as
well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and
historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical
studies of other children's texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as
a rich critical method for the study and understanding of
children's literature and indicates how the findings of this
approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable
methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new
approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within
socio-historical contexts.
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