Ethics and historical perspectives

Authors

• Amand K. Allen, Eastern Michigan University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2023

Department/School

English Language and Literature

Publication Title

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Abstract

This chapter argues that what it means to study children’s literature from an historical perspective has been – and continues to be – affected by the changing composition, methodologies, and theoretical interests of the field that studies it. The first half provides a historiographical overview of the main methodologies used by scholars within the field of Anglo-American children’s literary studies, accompanied by a brief meditation on archival research. The second half acknowledges the many complications involved in studying children’s literature from a historical perspective, such as definitions, disciplines, periodization, the lack of cross-cultural analyses, and other practical considerations.

Comments

A. K. Allen is a faculty member in EMU's Department of English Language and Literature.

Recommended Citation

Allen, A. K. (2023). Ethics and historical perspectives. In C. Nelson, E. Wesseling, & A. M.-Y. Wu (Eds.), The Routledge companion to children’s literature and culture (pp. 33–44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003214953-5