The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature (Hardcover)

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 Romøren 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 Index