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SUMMARY:Sense and Sensibility in Child Literature: Disinformation\, Affect
  and the Literary Imagination - Katharine Jones Sullivan\, Committee Resea
 rch Office\, Canberra\, Australia
DTSTART:20190515T160000Z
DTEND:20190515T173000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:This paper looks at gendered representations of affect and ima
 gination. The concept of ‘sense and sensibility’ signals a pragmatic i
 nterest in resisting oppositional rhetoric—noting Jane Austen did not ti
 tle her novel\, ‘Sense or Sensibility’… The lively sensibility and i
 magination of the girl lead in a number of child literature texts has prov
 en attractive to readers. Possible areas for discussion: representations o
 f emotion and imagination\; gendered constructions of reason/emotion\; ‘
 maturing’ from sensibility to sense/childhood to adulthood\; and spatial
 ities of emotion. ‘Emotional authenticity’ and ‘imaginative truth’
  inside and outside the book have different aesthetic and political meanin
 gs\, but with the rise of disinformation and populism\, the reason/emotion
  binary has been pitched in confusing ways. Possible areas for discussion:
  progression in empirical and ethical approaches to knowledge\; gender\, a
 ffect\, knowledge and power\; the ethics/politics of emotion\; and lying a
 nd fiction-writing themes. Reader positioning and fieldwork with child rea
 ders are also of interest.\n\nKatharine Jones Sullivan is a visiting schol
 ar from the Committee Research Office\, Canberra\, Australia. Her journal 
 publications include ‘Getting rid of children's literature’\, based on
  her doctoral thesis\, Other Literatures and Issues in Criticism\, Theory 
 and Philosophy: Reintroducing a Critical Approach to Child Literature. Pas
 t research has been supported through fellowships at the University of Can
 berra and study leave at the Australian National University. She leads res
 earch teams in her professional work.\n
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