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2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020, for Literatures in the English Language
Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books.
Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Excavating
Paracanons and the lifelong reading act
Nostalgia, memoirs and re-memorying
Experiments in rereading
Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics
1. The reading scene
Memory and the reading scene
Childhood reading and reminiscence
Childhood books and recollection
Rereading and recognition
Reconstructing through rereading
Conclusion
2. The life space
The life space and autotopography
Co-reading
Learning to read
School and home
Reading spaces
Mapping reading
Conclusion
3. Affective traces
Affective traces and resonance
Pleasures
Passions
Grief
Fear
Desire and boredom
Conclusion
4. Rereading attitudes
The uses of childhood books and rereading attitudes
Nostalgia
Rereading with children
As scholars
Understanding literary life
Conclusion
5. Transforming, misremembering, forgetting
Transformed texts
Material mismatches
Translations and transmediations
Forgetting and anamnesis
Conclusion
Conclusion: The lifelong reading act
Future directions
Final words
Appendix: Paricipants
Notes
Bibliography
Index
