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Stories and Society

Children’s Literature in its Social Context

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Dennis Butts

    1. Reading University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The School Story

    • Jeffrey Richards
    Pages 1-21

  3. Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War: Paranoia and Paradox

    • Perry Nodelman
    Pages 22-36

  4. Home and Family: English and American Ideals in the Nineteenth Century

    • Gillian Avery
    Pages 37-49

  5. ‘The Most Beautiful Things in All the World’? Families in Little Women

    • Elizabeth Lennox Keyser
    Pages 50-64

  6. The Adventure Story

    • Dennis Butts
    Pages 65-83

  7. Social Class and Educational Adventures: Jan Needle and the Biography of a Value

    • Fred Inglis
    Pages 84-96

  8. Fantasy

    • C. W. Sullivan III
    Pages 97-111

  9. Winnie-the-Pooh and Domestic Fantasy

    • Peter Hunt
    Pages 112-124

  10. The Dorothys of Oz: A Heroine’s Unmaking

    • Mark I. West
    Pages 125-131

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 132-143
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About this book

Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America. There are indeed a number of histories and surveys of children's literature, but few works exist which discuss the contexts, ideologies and narrative structures of children's stories in a serious and detailed manner, or examine particular case-histories to see how the different forces interact. This is what this collection of essays attempts to do. The topics range from Little Women to Winnie the Pooh and from story forms such as 'The Adventure Story' to 'Fantasy'.

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  • Reading University, UK

    Dennis Butts

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