Children's Literature Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends

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 andC.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, MagicWells; 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: RetracingThe Other Side of Truth; B.Naidoo
What is The Other Side of Truth; J.Giles
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