Karen Coats is professor of English at Illinois State University. She is author of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Looking Glass and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature; and Children’s Literature and the Developing Reader and coeditor of Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature and The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders.
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