The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature
(Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No. 120)
ed. Ann Lawson Lucas, Greenwood Press.
Contents
Introduction:
The Past in the Present of Children's Literature
by Ann Lawson Lucas
Presenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics:
Theoretical Approaches Fiction versus History:History's Ghosts
by Danielle Thaler
From Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars: a Re-reading
by Rolf Romoren
Historical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction
by Deborah Stevenson
Myths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and Fiction
In and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc
by Maurice Boutet de Monvel by Isabelle Nieres-Chevrel
Re-inventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and English Children's Literature
by Penny Brown
History and Collective Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young
by Francesca Blockeel
The Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature
by Tina L. Hanlon
Adventures in History
Constructions of History in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books
by Thomas Kullmann
'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India (1884) and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess (1994)
by Dennis Butts
Colonial, Postcolonial
Doctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism
by David Steege
Picturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children
by Clare Bradford
Narrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence
by Paula T. Connolly
Narrative Challenges:
The Great Irish Famine in Recent Stories for Children
by Celia Keenan
War, Postwar On the Use of Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth
by Zohar Shavit
Reverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature
by Susan Tebbutt
War Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy
and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei (1993)
by Gillian Lathey
Modern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place
"House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War
by Linda Hall
The Past Re-Imagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels after World War Two
by Adrienne E. Gavin
England's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House
by Pamela Knights
Masculine, Feminism--and the History of Fantasy
Re-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle
by Tony Watkins
The "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet
by Yoshida Junko
Witch-figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subarltern and the Subversive
by John Stephens
The Future for Children's Literature
The Duty of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite!
by Jean Perrot
Selected Bibliography
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