Classic texts and contemporary trends. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heather Montgomery, Nicola J. Watson.
• Other Names: Montgomery, Heather (Heather Kate); Watson, Nicola J, 1958-
• 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 (2000); New Historical Fiction for Children; C.Ringrose ; Coram Boy as History; J.Gavin ; FUTURE WORLDS: PHILIP REEVE, MORTAL ENGINES (2001); Carnivalizing the Future: Mortal Engines ; K.Sambell ; Traction Cities, Postmodernisms, and Coming of Age: Mortal Engines; J.Dawson
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (424 pages), (16 illustrations)
• Subjects: 809.89282; Reference; Children's literature -- History and criticism; General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137115966; 1137115963
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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