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5 - Playspace: Spatialising Children’s Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

Sally Bushell
Sally Bushell
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Lancaster University
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Chapter Five explores the spatial dimensions of Children’s Fiction, arguing that the explicit presence of the map in many canonical texts signals the importance of place and space for the genre and that a specific form of bounded space between adult and child (playspace) emerges. This space is essential for the literary representation of childhood to function positively. The spatial play that this enables is exemplified in Arthur Ransome’s Lake District Series whilst the – equally powerful – negation of playspace is embodied in Peter Pan. (84)

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Children's literatureArthur RansomeLake DistrictRousseauRosePeter Pan.
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Reading and Mapping Fiction
Spatialising the Literary Text
 , pp. 164 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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