No kids allowed : children's literature for adults /
Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-
No kids allowed : children's literature for adults / Michelle Ann Abate. - 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups -- A Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults -- Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction -- Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book -- Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship -- Learning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition -- Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood -- Conclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults.
"The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"--
1421438879 9781421438870 (electronic bk.)
1900-2099
American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Juvenile-style literature for adults--United States.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--21e siècle
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
American literature.
Juvenile-style literature for adults.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS492 / .A23 2020eb
810.9/9282
No kids allowed : children's literature for adults / Michelle Ann Abate. - 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups -- A Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults -- Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction -- Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book -- Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship -- Learning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition -- Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood -- Conclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults.
"The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"--
1421438879 9781421438870 (electronic bk.)
1900-2099
American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Juvenile-style literature for adults--United States.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--21e siècle
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
American literature.
Juvenile-style literature for adults.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS492 / .A23 2020eb
810.9/9282