Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350178236)

Shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language

Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Booksexplores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books.

Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.

Author: Alison Waller
ISBN-10: 1350178233
ISBN-13: 9781350178236
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2020
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d