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UNINA9910810883503321 |
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Autore |
Pugh Tison |
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Titolo |
Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature / / Tison Pugh |
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New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-82915-6 |
1-136-82916-4 |
1-283-04054-9 |
9786613040541 |
0-203-83141-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Collana |
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Children's literature and culture |
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Children's stories, English - History and criticism |
Children's stories, American - History and criticism |
Sex in literature |
Heterosexism in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Notes on the Text; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Litereature; Chapter One: "There lived in the Land of Oz two queerly made men": Queer Utopianism and Antisocial Eroticism in L. Frank Baum's Oz Books; Chapter Two: Eternal Childhood, Taming Tomboyism, and Equine Erotic Triangles in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Series; Chapter Three: Erotic Heroism, Redemptive Teen Sexuality, and the Queer Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials |
Chapter Four: Dumbledore's Queer Ghost: Homosexuality and Its Heterosexual Afterlives in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter NovelsChapter Five: "What, Then, Does Beatrice Mean?": Hermaphroditic Gender, Predatory Heterosexuality, and Promiscuous Allusions in Daniel Handler / Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; Chapter Six: Excremental Eroticism, Carnivalesque Desires, and Gross Adolescence in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl; Chapter Seven: Masochistic Abstinence, |
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Bug Chasing, and the Erotic Death Drive in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series |
Conclusion Homosexuality and the End of Innocence in David Levithan's Boy Meets BoyNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series-to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative hetero |
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