Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions And Aesthetic Transformations In Juvenile Fiction

Radical Children’s Literature Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction Kimberley Reynolds Radical Children’s Literature Also by Kimberley Reynolds GIRLS ONLY? Gender and Popular Juvenile Fiction in Britain 1880–1910 VICTORIAN HEROINES: Readings and Representations of Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (with Nicola Humble) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN THE 1890s AND 1990s CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN BRITAIN SINCE 1945 (with Nicholas Tucker) REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDHOOD DEATH (with Gillian Avery) FRIGHTENING FICTION (with Geraldine Brennan and Kevin McCarron) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND CHILDHOOD IN PERFORMANCE CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED MODERN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: An Introduction Radical Children’s Literature Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction Kimberley Reynolds © Kimberley Reynolds 2007 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–8561–3 ISBN-10: 1–4039–8561–8 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reynolds, Kimberley. Radical children’s literature : future visions and aesthetic transformations in juvenile fiction / Kimberley Reynolds. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–8561–3 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1–4039–8561–8 (cloth) 1. Children’s literature – Political aspects. 2. Children’s literature – Social aspects. I. Title. PN 1009.5.P64R49 2007 809
.93358––dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne 2006052965 For Peter This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgements ix Author’s Note xi 1 Breaking Bounds: The Transformative Energy of Children’s Literature 2 Breaking the Frame: Picturebooks, Modernism, and New Media 3 And None of It W