Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

278 Pages·2006·1.99 MB·English

by  Carolyn Daniel

VORACIOUS
CHILDREN
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VORACIOUS
CHILDREN
Who Eats Whom
in Children’s Literature
Carolyn Daniel
New York London
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Daniel, Carolyn.
Voracious children : who eats whom in children’s literature / Carolyn Daniel.
p. cm. -- (Children’s literature and culture ; v. 39)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-97642-1 (acid-free paper)
1. Children’s literature-History and criticism. 2. Food in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Children’s
literature and culture ; 39.
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CONTENTS
Series Editor’s Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 You Are What You Eat 13
Food and Cultural Identity
2 “Have You Been a Good Girl?” 36
Manners and Mores at Teatime
3 Sweet Dreams and Food Fetishes 61
4 Th e Land of Milk and Honey 87
Representing the Mother
5 Th e Wicked Witch 115
A Pathological Image of Mother
6 Hairy on the Inside 139
From Cannibals to Pedophiles
7 Th e Age of Disgust 163
Rude Books for Rude Boys
8 Disorderly Eating 185
A Taste for Control
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vi • Contents
Aft erword 211
Notes 215
Bibliography 241
Series Page 253
Index 257
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SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
Dedicated to furthering original research in children’s literature and cul-
ture, the Children’s Literature and Culture series includes monographs on
individual authors and illustrators, historical examinations of diff erent
periods, literary analyses of genres, and comparative studies on literature
and the mass media. Th e series is international in scope and is intended
to encourage innovative research in children’s literature with a focus on
interdisciplinary methodology.
Children’s literature and culture are understood in the broadest sense
of the term children to encompass the period of childhood up through
adolescence. Owing to the fact that the notion of childhood has changed
so much since the origination of children’s literature, this Routledge series
is particularly concerned with transformations in children’s culture and
how they have aff ected the representation and socialization of children.
While the emphasis of the series is on children’s literature, all types of
studies that deal with children’s radio, fi lm, television, and art are included
in an endeavor to grasp the aesthetics and values of children’s culture. Not
only have there been momentous changes in children’s culture in the last
fi ft y years, but there have been radical shift s in the scholarship that deals
with these changes. In this regard, the goal of the Children’s Literature
and Culture series is to enhance research in this fi eld and, at the same
time, point to new directions that bring together the best scholarly work
throughout the world.
Jack Zipes
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to Heather Scutter for her kind, thoughtful, and generous
attention; to Nina Philadelphoff -Puren for her guidance; and to Monash
University for the Postgraduate Publication Award.
A version of chapter 6 has been published in Papers: Explorations into
Children’s Literature 13, no. 3(2003): 5–21.
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