Research Catalog

Title

Beasts at bedtime : revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature / Liam Heneghan.

Author

Heneghan, Liam

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

338 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subjects

• Children's literature
• Ecology in literature
• Environmentalism in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Children's literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-317) and index.

Contents

Section one. On reading. The existential princess : a fairy tale. Beasts at bedtime : reading about nature with children ; Doctor Dolittle and the question of reading -- Section two. Pastoral stories. Topophilia. The pastoral promise : and they all lived happily ever after ; The ecology of Pooh ; Peter Rabbit's brutal paradise ; In the garden of earthly delights ; Beyond the pool of darkness : the pastoral roots of Irish stories -- Section three. Wilderness stories. Lost in the Popo Agie Wilderness. On the Mallard ; Where the wild things always were ; Wild and Grimm fairy tales : wilderness on the margins ; "Gollumgate" : Tolkien and Ireland ; "I am in fact a hobbit" : Tolkien as environmentalist ; The tin woodman's path of carnage through the Land of Oz ; Hunger and thirst in Suzanne Collins's Hunger games -- Section four. Children on wild islands. Old Tom's island. The why and the what of islands ; Archmage Ged, Merlin, and Harry Potter and the training of wizards and witches ; Is L.T. Meade the real author of Enid Blyton's famous five? ; Robinson Crusoe : now here's a cannibalism tale for every child ; On isles benevolent; on isles malevolent -- Section five. Urban stories. The urban wild. The urban to rural gradient of children's stories : The happy prince ; Antipathy to urban life in nursery rhymes ; Urban decay : R. Crumb in the nursery ; The escape artist : Calvin and Hobbes and the suburban idyll ; Babar : elephant and urban adapter -- Section six. Learning to care. And the world hummed back. Caring for the rose : environmental literacy and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The little prince ; What then should we do? : the Lorax in the twenty-first century -- Section seven. Good night, sleep tight. In the tot lot. Bookend conversations.

Call Number

JFD 18-3118

ISBN

• 9780226431383
• 022643138X

LCCN

2017051961

OCLC

1004254984

Author

Heneghan, Liam, author.

Title

Beasts at bedtime : revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature / Liam Heneghan.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-317) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3118