The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership
"Highly recommended" by Choice

While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

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The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership
"Highly recommended" by Choice

While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

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The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

by Rachel Falconer
The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

by Rachel Falconer

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"Highly recommended" by Choice

While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415978880
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/21/2008
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 1.50(w) x 2.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rachel Falconer is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published criticism in the areas of classical, early modern, and contemporary literature and narrative theory. Her recent books include Hell in Contemporary Literature, and Face to Face: Mikhail Bakhtin in Russia and the West.

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction A Decade of Border Crossing

Chapter 1 Kiddults at Large

Chapter 2 Harry Potter, Lightness and Death

Chapter 3 Coming of Age in a Fantasy World:

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Chapter 4 Seeing Things Big:

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Chapter 5 Adolescence and Abjection:

Geraldine McCaughrean’s The White Darkness

Chapter 6 The Search for Roots:

David Almond’s Clay

Chapter 7 Re-reading Childhood Books:

C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair

Conclusion Crossing Thresholds of Time

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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