Childrens Literature and Culture by Rebecca Rowe - 9781032572703

Childrens Literature and CultureAn Introduction\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Rowe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032572703, 978-1032572703\nSynopsis\nChildrens Literature and Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through childrens literature. Childrens literature has long been used as a mechanism by which a culture passes its values from one generation to the next. Because of this culturally didactic purpose, childrens literature can be viewed as one of the most fruitful areas of study of any given culture. At the same time, studying the cultures from which works of childrens literature emerge and in which they circulate can also help better understand not only the ideas of childhood that underpin individual texts for children but the role they play in the construction and transmission of different cultural ideologies. This book teaches readers this double work of using culture .