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Expectations and Experiences : Children, Childhood and Children's Literature

Edited by:
Clare Bradford and Valerie Coghlan
Assistant Editors: Kerry Mallan and Mary Shine Thompson
Consultant Editor: Kimberley Reynolds
Prepared under the auspices of the International Research
Society for Children's Literature
Pied Piper Publishing

 Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Clare Bradford and Valerie Coghlan

lrish Literature and Children
Literature, Childhood and Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin, lreland

Childhood and Families
Narrative and Characterization in Three Recent Children's and . . . . . . .29
Young Adult Novels
Siobhàn Parkinson, Dublin, lreland

Adoption and Nineteenth-century American Children's . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Literature
Carol J Singley, Rufgers University, USA

Family Performances: The Role of Childhood and Family in . . . . . . . . .56
Eighteenth-Century Children's Drama in Germany
Ute Dettmar, Centre for Children's Literature Research,
Frankfurt, Germany

Photographing the Almost-family in the Weetzie Bat Books . . . . . . . . . 66
Yoshida Junko, Kobe College, Japan

Not Equal to the Phallic Legacy: Contemporary Boys' Books in . . . . . . 76
English Canada
Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Childhood and ldeologies
Erasmus's Senile Colloquium (1524), or a "Joyous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Conversation" on Happiness for Young People
Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

Children's Bibles: Sacralized and Problematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Ruth B Bottigheimer, University of lnnsbruck, Austria

"ln the Hope White People Will Like Them": Andrew Lang and . . . . . . .111
the Colonization of Fairyland
Björn Sundmark, Malmö University, Sweden

Dust, Daemons and Deicide: Philip Pullman's Theologies of . . . . . . . . . . 122
Childhood
Robert A Davis, University of Glasgow, Scotland

 "The Passionate Dust of Mortality": Creative World-making and . . . . . . . 135
Moral Agency in C.S. Lewis, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip
Pullman
Naomi Wood, Kansas Sfafe University, USA

 Intersubjectivity, Evil and Moral Development in Ursula Le . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Guin's Girts
Beppie Keane, Macquarie U niversity, Australia

A Discourse in its Own Right: The Holocaust in Contemporary . . . . . . . . 157
Children's Literature
Katrien Vloeberghs, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 Childhood and Theory
Fowl Play: Artemis Fowl, Sitting Ducks and Politics for Children . . . . . . .169
Elizabeth Parsons, Deakin University, Australia

 Let Children's Wounds Speak: Reading Thursday's Child as a . . . . . . . . . .178
Trauma Narrative for Children
Fiona Feng-Hsin Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Novelizing the Fairy Tale: The Case of Gregory Maguire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Told for Children? Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and . . . . . . . . . 202
their Audiences
Nina Christensen, Danish University of Education,
Copenhagen, Denmark

Ludic Child Metamorphs: Picturebooks, Playfulness and Power . . . . . . . . 210
Maria Lassén-Seger, Abo Akademi lJniversity, Turku, Finland

Male in the Dark: The Gothic and Masculinity in Harald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Rosenløw Eeg's lnside Out and All the Doves
Svirn Slettan, Agder University College, Norway

 Childhood on Display
Editorial Reflections: Cultural Expression and the Children's . . . . . . . . . . .237
Publication Process in the USA
Laura Atkins, University of Newcastle, UK

 The Tale of One Bad Rat: The Child Alone and the Alternative . . . . . . . . .250
and Substitute Family
Mel Gibson, Northumbria University, UK

Avant-garde Art as Child's Play: The Origins of Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Lebedev's Picturebook Aesthetic
Sara Pankenier, Stanford University, California

About the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281