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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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More Nights than Days : A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors / by Kiss, Judit

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Elusive Childhood : Impossible Representation in Modern Fiction / by Honeyman, Susan

Subjects: “…Children in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00855252…”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.…”
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Escribir la infancia : narradoras mexicanas contemporáneas /

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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetics and deism -- Shaftesburian disinterestedness -- Addison's aesthetics of the novel -- The conversation piece : politeness and subversion -- The "Great Creation" : Fielding -- Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne -- The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children -- From novel to strange to "sublime" -- From novel to picturesque -- The novelizing of Hogarth.…”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. Tomorrow." Suffering and redemption in The god of small things.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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Marie NDiaye : Blankness and Recognition / by Asibong, Andrew

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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich / by Baer, Elizabeth Roberts

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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / by Pugh, Tison

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