Sinead Moriarty

Antarctica in British Children's Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers; Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000262711
• Artikelnr.: 60397088

Autorenporträt

Sinéad Moriarty received her MA and PhD in Children's Literature from the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Roehampton. She is currently working as a Teaching Fellow in Children's Literature in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. Sinéad has published on topics including the use of maps in contemporary Antarctic literature for children, as well as twentieth-century Robinsonades for child readers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: 'Heroic Era' Narratives
Chapter One: Robert F. Scott's Last Expedition
Chapter Two: Ernest Shackleton And Heroic Survival
Chapter Three: "Heroic Era" Subversions and Revisions
Part Two: Antarctic Fiction
Chapter Four: Uncanny Adventures Chapter Five: Antarctic Whaling Literature
for Children
Chapter Six: Picturing Penguins
Conclusion
References