This lively and accessible collection of essays by leading scholars and children's writers, some reprinted and others newly commissioned, provides studentswith high quality critical material on the most widely studied classic and contemporary texts. Chronologically organized, it spans picture books to the cross-over fiction of Harry Potter. INDICE: - 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 ofSubmission; 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 ofView 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 WEREVERY YOUNG (1924) - Introduction; N.Watson - The Contexts of A Child's Gardenof 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 - PeterPan 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'SMIDNIGHT 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 POTTERAND 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 Sideof Truth ; J.Giles - PAST WORLDS: JAMILA GAVIN, CORAM BOY (2000) - New Historical Fiction for Children; C.Ringrose - Coram Boy as History; J.Gavin - FUTUREWORLDS: PHILIP REEVE, MORTAL ENGINES (2001) - Carnivalizing the Future: Mortal Engines ; K.Sambell - Traction Cities, Postmodernisms, and Coming of Age: Mortal Engines; J.Dawson
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22714-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés