03979oam 2200709I 450 991079185400332120230725021007.01-136-82915-61-136-82916-41-283-04054-997866130405410-203-83141-110.4324/9780203831410 (CKB)2560000000061481(EBL)668162(OCoLC)712651701(SSID)ssj0000470317(PQKBManifestationID)11312430(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470317(PQKBWorkID)10412042(PQKB)10421593(MiAaPQ)EBC668162(Au-PeEL)EBL668162(CaPaEBR)ebr10452744(CaONFJC)MIL304054(EXLCZ)99256000000006148120180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInnocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature /Tison PughNew York ;London :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (223 p.)Children's literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-79583-6 0-415-88633-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 MaterialsChapter 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, Bug Chasing, and the Erotic Death Drive in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight SeriesConclusion Homosexuality and the End of Innocence in David Levithan's Boy Meets BoyNotes; Bibliography; IndexInnocence, 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 heteroChildren's literature and culture.Children's stories, EnglishHistory and criticismChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticismSex in literatureHeterosexism in literatureChildren's stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.Children's stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.Heterosexism in literature.823.0099282Pugh Tison.856145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791854003321Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature3802751UNINA