The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children’s Fiction and Its Adult Readership (review)

Within The Crossover Novel, Falconer explores the cultural landscape of modern adult readership in Britain alongside the works of J. K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, Mark Haddon, Geraldine McCaughrean, David Almond, and C. S. Lewis, illustrating connections among the social, economic, and political aspec...

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Published inChildren's Literature Association Quarterly Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 198 - 201
Main Author Barham, Joli
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.07.2009
Subjects
Adults
Barriers
Bookstores
Calvino, Italo (1923-1985)
Childrens literature
Childrens novels
Fiction
Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile (1901-1981)
Lewis, C S (1898-1963)
Nonfiction
Politics
Pullman, Philip (1946- )
Reading
Rowling, J K
Truth
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Summary:Within The Crossover Novel, Falconer explores the cultural landscape of modern adult readership in Britain alongside the works of J. K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, Mark Haddon, Geraldine McCaughrean, David Almond, and C. S. Lewis, illustrating connections among the social, economic, and political aspects of contemporary life and the thematic elements of the texts themselves in order to provide a detailed understanding of the crossover phenomenon as a whole. Relying again on Freud's primal drives Eros and Thanatos, as well as on the romantic notions of childhood developed by poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, Falconer views the magical creation of a living clay monster by Almond's two child protagonists as indicative of modern cravings for a return to primeval truth and traditional values.
ISSN:0885-0429
1553-1201
1553-1201
DOI:10.1353/chq.0.1906