Recent Historical Metadiscourses on Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Recent Historical Metadiscourses on Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the reality of “grand” literary histories’ tending to ignore (or even minimize) the importance of children’s and young adult literature, we survey here several recent evolutions of the critical histories of this non-canonic literary segment, which might suggest ways in which it is appropriating approaches and research methods hitherto confined to mainstream literature. All this convergence may further suggest that a discrete revaluation of “kidlit” within the Western canon might be well under way.

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