Ethics in British children's literature : unexamined life / Lisa Sainsbury.

Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945, from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature. Ethics in British Childr...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.
Main Author: Sainsbury, Lisa (Lecturer in children's literature)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Series:Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature.
Subjects:
Children's literature, English > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Physical Description:xi, 220 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : unexamined life in The inferno
  • The sin of indifference (Part I) : beyond naughty
  • The sin of indifference (Part II) : discovering evil
  • Moral ammunition : growing out of dissatisfaction through ethical life
  • Midnight philosophy and environmental ethics
  • The making of monsters : duty, gender, and the rightness of wrong law breaking
  • The greatness of apple seeds : ehtical relationships in miniature literature
  • Conclusion : through the library ... towards a life examined
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.