Research Catalog

Title

Talking animals in children's fiction : a critical study / Catherine L. Elick.

Author

Elick, Catherine L.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Details

Description

x, 258 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power"--

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Animals in literature
• Anthropomorphism in literature
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism
• Children's stories, American > History and criticism
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Entering the wonderland of 'what if': Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) -- Contested borders: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) -- Advocating for animals: Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series (1920-1952) -- A revisionist history of revolutionary America: Robert Lawson's Ben and Me (1939) -- Feasting at the feet of St. Francis: Robert Lawson's Rabbit Hill (1944) -- The animal in us: E.B. White's Stuart Little (1945) -- Sowing the good word: E.B. White's Charlotte's Web (1952) -- New York's Times Square as carnival market square: George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square (1960) -- Escaping the rat race: Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971).

ISBN

• 9780786478781
• 0786478780
• 9781476620046 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015002140

OCLC

• 898167583
• SCSB-11108881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library