Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts

Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M.

Schulz's "Peanuts" is a comprehensive analysis of the beloved comic strip that sheds new light on its core cast of characters.

This book provides in-depth critical attention to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Franklin, Pigpen, Woodstock, and Linus, exploring their significance and relevance in unfamiliar ways.

With a wide array of interpretive lenses, the chapters invite readers to revisit and rethink these iconic figures, demonstrating how Schulz's work remains a rich site of social, cultural, and political meaning.

This book is an excellent addition to the critical literature of Peanuts and will be a central text in the study of this popular and critically acclaimed comic strip.