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MACMILLAN Childhood, Marginality, and the Politics of the Civilising Process: A Discursive Genealogy of Children’s Historical Subjectivity (Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood)

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This book offers a critical re-evaluation of the institution of childhood through a discursive and genealogical lens, examining how modern subjectivity, power, and marginality have shaped the child's figure. Drawing on critical theory, Foucauldian analysis, and poststructuralist thought, it traces the historical and literary construction of the child subject from the Enlightenment through to the neoliberal present. Analysing canonical texts―including the Grimms’ fairy tales, Carroll’s Alice, and Gaiman’s Coraline―the book interrogates the civilising process and its role in producing normative childhood. It challenges prevailing assumptions in Childhood Studies, children’s literature, and educational theory by foregrounding the contradictions, exclusions, and political functions embedded in childhood discourse. This work speaks to scholars in Childhood and Youth Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Children’s Literature, seeking a deeper understanding of how the child is discursively mobilised in social control, identity formation, and cultural reproduction projects. By problematising the utopian ideal of childhood, the book reorients the field toward a more critical, historically grounded engagement with the politics of marginality.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 3032246792
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference > English as a Foreign Language > Literacy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 August 2026
Listed Since: 15 March 2026

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