Children's literature : classic texts and contemporary trends
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Children's literature : classic texts and contemporary trends
Palgrave Macmillan , Open University, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends provides students with high quality critical material on a selection of important classic and contemporary children's books. From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Melvin Burgess's Junk, each has been selected because they still find a favoured place on the bookshelves of today's children and because they are widely studied on university courses. These case studies explore children's literature across a variety of genres and ages, bringing together lively and accessible scholarly essays by leading scholars, some reprinted and others newly commissioned. The collection is supported by detailed introductory material, suggestions for further reading and a colour plate section reproducing covers and illustrations.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures.- List of Plates.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction
- H.Montgomery & N.Watson.- PART I: CLASSIC TEXTS.- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN (1868-9).- Introduction
- N.Watson.- Little Women: Alcott's Civil War
- J.Fetterley.- 'Wake up and be a man': Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of Submission
- K.Parille.- Louisa May Alcott and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series Books
- S.A.Wadsworth.- R.L.STEVENSON, TREASURE ISLAND (1881-2
- 1883).- Introduction
- S.Haslam.- My First Book: Treasure Island
- R.L.Stevenson.- Slaves to Adventure: the Pure Story of Treasure Island
- D.Loxley.- Treasure Island and the Romance of the British Civil Service
- C.Parkes.- BEATRIX POTTER, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT (1902).- Introduction
- S.Goodman.- Peter Rabbit: Potter's Story
- M.Mackey.- Aesop in the Shadows
- P.Hollindale.- Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- C.Scott.- TWO CLASSIC POETRY COLLECTIONS, R. L. STEVENSON: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) AND A.A.MILNE: WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG (1924).- Introduction
- N.Watson.- The Contexts of A Child's Garden of Verses
- M.Rosen.- A.A.Milne: When We Were Very Young
- J.Wullschlager.- J.M.BARRIE, PETER PAN (1904).- Introduction
- N.Watson.- Peter Pan and the Spectacle of the Child
- J.Rose.- A Hundred Years of Peter Pan
- P.Hollindale.- Peter Pan and the Pantomime Tradition
- D. White and C.Tarr.- ARTHUR RANSOME, SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (1930).- Introduction
- S.Haslam.- The Lake District Novels
- P.Hunt.- Arthur Ransome and Problems of Literary Assessment
- N.Tucker.- Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the Lure of the Real
- A.Bogen.- PHILIPPA PEARCE, TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN (1958).- Introduction
- H.Montgomery.- Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden
- M.Rustin & M.Rustin.- Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells
- M.Nikolajeva.- Tom's Midnight Garden
- R.Natov.- MILDRED TAYLOR, ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY (1976).- Introduction
- J.Maybin.- A Search for Law and Justice in a Racist Society
- H. Bosmajian.- The Role of Education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder
- C.Denean Cobb.- Child Agency in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- K.McDowell.- PHILIP PULLMAN, NORTHERN LIGHTS (1995).- Introduction
- H.Montgomery.- Dust as Metaphor in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
- M.A.Bird.- Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman
- N.Wood.- Intertextuality
- C.Squires.- J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (1997).- Introduction
- N.Watson.- The Phenomenon of Harry Potter, or Why All the Talk?
- J.Zipes.- The Unthinkingness of Harry Potter
- S.Gupta.- Harry Potter and the Reinvention of the Past
- A.Blake.- PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS.- FICTION FOR ADOLESCENTS: MELVIN BURGESS, JUNK (1996).- Introduction
- A.Hewings& N.Watson.- Sympathy for the Devil
- M.Burgess.- 'And It's So Real': Versions of Reality in Melvin Burgess's Junk
- J.Stephens.- RADICAL AGENDAS: BEVERLEY NAIDOO, THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH (2000).- A Writer's Journey: Retracing The Other Side of Truth
- B.Naidoo.- What is The Other Side of Truth
- J.Giles.- PAST WORLDS: JAMILA GAVIN, CORAM BOY (20.
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