Reading Madeleine L’Engle

Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

Heidi A. Lawrence

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Routledge
30 January 2025

Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Children's literature studies: general

Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels from her three Time, Austin family, and O’Keefe family series as those relationships develop along a human-nonhuman kinship continuum. This is accomplished through an examination both of pairs of novels from the fantastic and the realistic series, and of single novels which stand out as slightly different from the most prominent genre in a given series. Thus, this examination also shows L’Engle’s fluid movement along a fantasy-reality continuum and demonstrates the integration of the three series with each other. Importantly, through examining these relationships and this movement along continuums in these novels, the project demonstrates how ecopsychology and ecotherapy provide strong and important – and as-yet virtually unexplored – intersections with children’s literature.

By: Heidi A. Lawrence
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032487014
ISBN 10: 1032487011
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Heidi A. Lawrence (PhD in English Literature, University of Glasgow) studies the intersections of ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, with children’s literature, taking special interest in imaginative and fantastic literature. She has published on Madeleine L’Engle and L.M. Montgomery. She works as adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), teaching in the English Department and the School of Education.