Virginia Lee Burton's "Little House" in Popular Consciousness: Fuelling Postwar Environmentalism and Antiurbanism?

Joseph Goddard

doi:10.1177/0096144211403087

Virginia Lee Burton's "Little House" in Popular Consciousness: Fuelling Postwar Environmentalism and Antiurbanism?

Joseph Goddard

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Abstract

Denne artikel analyserer Virginia Lee Burton's børnebogs produktion. Burton vandte de fornemmeste pris for illustreret børnebøger, Caldecott prisen i 1943, for sin "Little House." tre generationer af amerikanske børn har læst bogen, som fortæller i simple vendinger hvorfor lykken er et liv på landet "langt væk fra byen."

Artiklens hypotese er, at børnebøgers stor betydning for hvordan børn opfatter verden er ofte overset i.f.t. amerikansk by og miljøhistorie. Igennem fortolkning og historiske analyse diskuteres denne hypotese, hovedsagligt på bagggrund at "Little House" og "Life Story" (1962).

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Urban History
Vol/bind	37
Udgave nummer	4
Sider (fra-til)	562-582
ISSN	0096-1442
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144211403087
Status	Udgivet - jul. 2011

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