Children in Culture

JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of SussexERICA BURMAN Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJOE KELLEHER Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Roehampton Institute, LondonMAARGARDA MORGADO Senior Lecturer and head of the English Studies Unit, PortugalKIMBERLEY REYNOLDS Reader in Children's Literature, Roehampton Institute, LondonREX STAINTON ROGERS Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading WENDY STAINTON ROGERS Senior Lecturer in the School of health and Social Welfare, Open UniversitySTEPHEN THOMSON Lecturer in English, University of GlasgowSARA THORNTON Senior Lecturer, University of Picardy-Jules Verne, FranceVALERIE WALKERDINE Professor of Critical Psychology and head of the Division, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaPAUL YATES Lecturer in the Graduate research Centre for Education, University of Sussex

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film The Pedagogics of Post/Modernity: The Address to the Child as Political Subject and Object Between Atavism and Altruism: The Child on the Threshold in Victorian Psychology and Edwardian Children's Fiction The Vanity of Childhood: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Destroying the Child in the Novel of the Eighteen-Forties Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children Word Children The Season of Play: Constructions of the Child in the English Novel Children in Cyberspace: A New Frontier? Substitute Communities, Authentic Voices: The Organic Writing of the Child Index

"...the type of constructivist approach assumed by the authors varies considerably from chapter to chapter, making this interdisciplinary discussion of childhood a sound testament against disciplinary isolation." - Choice