Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film, & Drama

by Ellen Handler Spitz

"A brilliant and daring book on how art reveals life, how it illuminates childhood beyond what the sciences of development can tell us."
---Jerome Bruner, University Professor, New York University

"Combining the surgical precision of a psychoanalytically informed critic with the oracular eloquence of a brilliant close reader, Ellen Handler Spitz reads our cultural fortunes about childhood and parenting through works of art. Moving us (in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472117548
• ISBN13: 9780472117543
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"