"Long gone is the time when studying childhood was seen as a marginal subject for serious scholarly research; on the contrary, there is a growing interest in the phenomenon of childhood in cultural and literary studies. Covering a wide range of themes as well as possible approaches to the ways childhood and coming of age are represented in British and American literature, Literary Childhoods is a contribution to this current debate. While the focus of the essays moves between two centuries and two countries, they are intrinsically linked by a shared point of view as they explore how different authors and literary texts depict childhood and the process of growing up, what images, stereotypes, cultural assumptions as well as literary means are used for the purpose, and how the figure of a child can be used as a literary device." . . . "childhood; childhood in fiction; growing up"@en . "Literary Childhoods: Growing up in British and American Literature" . "RIV/00216275:25210/08:00008152!RIV10-GA0-25210___" . "Literary Childhoods: Growing up in British and American Literature"@en . "Bub\u00EDkov\u00E1, \u0160\u00E1rka" . "1"^^ . "Literary Childhoods: Growing up in British and American Literature" . "Pardubice, \u010Cerven\u00FD Kostelec" . "Long gone is the time when studying childhood was seen as a marginal subject for serious scholarly research; on the contrary, there is a growing interest in the phenomenon of childhood in cultural and literary studies. Covering a wide range of themes as well as possible approaches to the ways childhood and coming of age are represented in British and American literature, Literary Childhoods is a contribution to this current debate. While the focus of the essays moves between two centuries and two countries, they are intrinsically linked by a shared point of view as they explore how different authors and literary texts depict childhood and the process of growing up, what images, stereotypes, cultural assumptions as well as literary means are used for the purpose, and how the figure of a child can be used as a literary device."@en . "25210" . . . . "1"^^ . . "[865C1E47D3FC]" . "RIV/00216275:25210/08:00008152" . "176"^^ . "978-80-7395-091-0" . "376946" . . . . . . . "Tahy, sv.2" . "Literary Childhoods: Growing up in British and American Literature" . "Literary Childhoods: Growing up in British and American Literature"@en . "Univerzita Pardubice, Pavel Mervart" . . "P(GA405/07/0151)" . . "176"^^ . .