Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature
Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
Editors
Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a comparative approach as they represent a wide spectrum of diverse genres and national children’s literatures by examining a wealth of children’s books from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The theoretical and methodological approaches range from literary studies, developmental psychology, maps and geography literacy, ecocriticism, historical contextualization with both new historicist and political-historical leanings, and intermediality to materialist cartographies, cultural studies, island studies, and genre studies. By this, this volume aims at embedding children’s literature in a broader field of literary and cultural studies, thus situating children’s literature research within a general context of literary theory.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 7] 2017. x, 267 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Table of figures | pp. vii–x
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Introduction. Maps and mapping in children’s literatureNina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer | pp. 1–14
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Part 1. About mapping: Learning to orientate oneself
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Chapter 1. A cognitive-developmental perspective on maps in children’s literatureLynn S. Liben | pp. 17–39
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Chapter 2. Mapping the new citizen – Pedagogy of cartophobia: Philanthropic geographies in the late EnlightenmentNikola von Merveldt | pp. 41–58
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Chapter 3. A subtle cartography: Navigating the past in children’s fictionJanet Grafton | pp. 59–74
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Chapter 4. Metaphorical maps in picturebooksBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer | pp. 75–91
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Part 2. Literary shaping of real cityscapes
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Chapter 5. Mapping a city – Berlin in a contemporary detective novelCorina Löwe | pp. 95–111
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Chapter 6. “New York just like I pictured it – skyscrapers and everything”Anna Katrina Gutierrez | pp. 113–128
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Chapter 7. Itineraries and maps: Walking as a means of building mobile cartographies in Peter Sís’ Madlenka and The Three Golden KeysAnna Juan Cantavella | pp. 129–145
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Chapter 8. Bruno Munari’s visual mapping of the city of Milan: A historical analysis of the picturebook Nella nebbia di MilanoMarnie Campagnaro | pp. 147–163
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Part 3. Fictional seascapes and landscapes
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Chapter 9. “An island made of water quite surrounded by earth”: Mapping out the seascape in nonsense literatureOlga Holownia | pp. 167–184
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Chapter 10. Connecting worlds: Mapping space-time in three fictional islandsMaria Nikolajeva and Liz Taylor | pp. 185–202
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Chapter 11. Mapping illusions: Between the child’s fantasy world of Lev Kassil’s Sсhwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet stateOlga Mikhaylova | pp. 203–220
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Chapter 12. Mapping Middle Earth: A Tolkienian legacyBjörn Sundmark | pp. 221–237
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Chapter 13. Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt: Mixing and mapping fantasy geography and contemporary political issuesNina Goga | pp. 239–256
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About the editors and contributors | pp. 257–261
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Name index
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Subject index
“This is a wide-ranging and original exploration of a fascinating and neglected area of children’s literature studies. Its juxtaposition of cognitive theory, cartography, and cultural, political and literary thinking takes us from fact to fiction, from Middle-earth to Milan, from the Enlightenment to contemporary fantasy, from novels to picturebooks. The connections between childhood and children’s books, the mind and the map, and different cultural views of the world demonstrate the value of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration in the rapidly-developing field of cognition and literature.”
Peter Hunt, Cardiff University, UK
“This promises to be a stimulating and energetic collection of essays on maps in children’s books. It ranges widely in its international subject matter and theoretical approaches, bringing the tools of ecocriticism, cognitive development, political history and more to bear on picturebooks and novels for children and teenagers. A valuable contribution to the field.”
Deirdre F. Baker, University of Toronto
“[T]he volume no doubt achieves its goal of ‘offer[ing] the reader a broad range of new approaches to and new perspectives into the study of maps and mapping in children’s literature.”
Josh Simpson, University of Strathclyde, in International Research in Children's Literature, 2020
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Subjects
Linguistics
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSY: Children's literature studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT009000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature