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      Children’s Play in Literature
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      Children’s Play in Literature book

      Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child

      Children’s Play in Literature

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      Children’s Play in Literature book

      Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child
      Edited ByJoyce E. Kelley
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 10 July 2018
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203702833
      Pages 286
      eBook ISBN 9780203702833
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Kelley, J.E. (Ed.). (2018). Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203702833

      ABSTRACT

      While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way children use play to experiment with their position in the world. This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play. Play gives children imaginative agency over limited lives and allows for experimentation with established social roles; play’s disruptive potential also may prove dangerous not only for children but for the society that restricts them.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |23 pages

      Introduction

      Caution—Children at Play: Investigations of Children’s Play in Theory and Literature
      ByJoyce E. Kelley

      chapter 1|21 pages

      “Fits of Vulgar Joy”

      Spontaneous Play in Book 1 of Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1805)
      ByAlison W. Powell

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain’s Writings

      ByAlan Gribben, Sarah Fredericks

      chapter 3|21 pages

      “Mammy, can’t you tell us sump’n’ to play?”

      Children’s Play as the Locus for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle
      ByJoyce E. Kelley

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Words with Kids at Play

      Sculpting Truth and Forging Childhood Friendship in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris
      ByJericho Williams

      chapter 5|19 pages

      Idylls of Play

      L. M. Montgomery’s Child-Worlds
      ByCaroline E. Jones

      chapter 6|19 pages

      Katherine Mansfield’s Children at Play

      ByJanka Kascakova

      chapter 7|21 pages

      The Buttons of the World are Round

      Gertrude Stein’s Toys
      ByMichael Opest

      chapter 8|19 pages

      Playing Pioneer

      Childhood, Artistry, and Play in the Little House Series
      ByAnna Lockhart

      chapter 9|19 pages

      “I’m ready to play now, you guys!”

      J. D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the Healing Power of Children’s Play
      ByAndy Clinton

      chapter 10|20 pages

      Free Play and the Prescriptive Endgames of Orson Scott Card

      ByTim Bryant

      chapter 11|19 pages

      Children’s Play and Mental Illness in Children’s Literature and Film

      ByIan Wojcik-Andrews

      chapter 12|20 pages

      “The trampoline of letters and words”

      Juvenile Linguistic Play in the Memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel
      ByDorothy Wolfe Giannakouros
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