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Children’s Literature

New Approaches

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction. Children’s Literature: New Approaches

    • Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
    Pages 1-24

  3. Author and Authorship. Effigies of Effie: On Kipling’s Biographies

    • Sue Walsh
    Pages 25-50

  4. Victorian Childhood. Reading Beyond the ‘Innocent Title’: Home Thoughts and Home Scenes

    • Christine Sutphin
    Pages 51-77

  5. Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality

    • J. Hillis Miller
    Pages 78-92

  6. The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism

    • Neil Cocks
    Pages 93-117

  7. Children’s Literature, Science and Faith: The Water-Babies

    • Lila Marz Harper
    Pages 118-143

  8. The Child, The Family, The Relationship. Familiar Stories: Family, Storytelling, and Ideology in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

    • Stephen Thomson
    Pages 144-167

  9. Reading Intertextuality. The Natural and the Legitimate: Intertextuality in ‘Harry Potter’

    • Daniela Caselli
    Pages 168-188

  10. National Identity. Where the Wild, Strange and Exotic Things Are: In Search of the Caribbean in Contemporary Children’s Literature

    • Jacqueline Lazú
    Pages 189-205

  11. Landscapes: ‘Going foreign’ in Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck

    • Sarah Spooner
    Pages 206-227

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 228-235
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About this book

Children's Literature: New Approaches is a guide for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of children's literature. It is structured through critics reading individual texts to bring out wider issues that are current in the field. Includes chronology of key events and publications, a selective guide to further reading and a list of Web-based resources.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

About the editor

DANIELA CASELLI Lecturer in English Literature, University of Salford, UK NEIL COCKS Head of English, Southeast Essex College, Southend-on-Sea, UK LILA MARZ HARPER Instructor, Central Washington University, USA JACQUELINE LAZU Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University, USA J HILLIS MILLER UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, USA SARAH SPOONER Teaches at the University of Reading, UK CHRISTINE SUTPHIN Professor of English, Central Washington University, USA STEPHEN THOMSON Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, University of Reading, UK SUE WALSH Lecturer in Children's Literature and American Literature, University of Reading, UK

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