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To celebrate World Book Day Lynsey Pollard from Little Box of Books shares with us her passion in children’s books and why it matters to think twice when choosing books for young readers. Check out some of her book recommendations! Thank you, Lynsey. Lynsey Pollard trained as a journalist and worked as a TV Producer … Continue reading “World Book Day: Looking out for positive gender roles in children’s books”
In this blog, Jade Dillon discusses ideology of body symbolism related to girl characters in 19th century children’s literature. She interprets Carroll’s Alice and her growing and getting small within the context of the Victorian female ideal of a petite woman. She also looks at the contrasting female characters in Peter Pan and Wendy: Wendy, … Continue reading “Exploring Female Identity in Carroll’s Wonderland and Barrie’s the Neverland”
Working in close cooperation with the CLiC team (our thanks go especially to Viola Wiegand, Anthony Hennessey and Jamie Lentin for their help with the corpus compilation, annotation and other necessary treatment), the new GLARE 19th Century Children’s Literature corpus (ChiLit) has been made available in November 2017 and it is now fully accessible through … Continue reading “ChiLit: the GLARE 19th Century Children’s Literature corpus in CLiC”
It’s all over the broadcast and social media. Women are angry. Really angry. And they have been angry for some time. But this time it seems different. What the Harvey Weinstein case and the #metoo campaign have triggered seems to be an avalanche of women’s voices shouting “we’re not happy with things as they are”. … Continue reading “Why GLARE?”
