Children's literature and the fin de siècle / edited by Roderick McGillis.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• McGillis, Roderick.
• International Research Society for Children's Literature. Congress 1999 : Calgary, Alta.)
• International Research Society for Children's Literature.
• Children's Literature Association (U.S.)

Series:

• Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 113.
• Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Children's literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
• Children's literature.
• Children--Books and reading--History--20th century--Congresses.
• Children--Books and reading.
• History.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

Expert contributors examine fin de siecle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's literature from around the world.

Contents:

• Introduction: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siecle / Roderick McGillis xi
• 1 A Tale of Three Tenses / Sheila A. Egoff 3
• 2 The Decline and Rise of Literary Nonsense in the Twentieth Century / Michael Heyman 13
• 3 The Century of the Child: Dutch Children's Poetry in the Twentieth Century / Anne de Vries 23
• 4 Ending Only to Begin Again: The Child Reader and One Hundred Years of Sequel and Series Writing / Rose Lovell-Smith 31
• 5 Voices of Protest: One Hundred Years of German Pacifist Children's Literature / Susan Tebbutt 41
• 6 Walking into the Sky: Englishness, Heroism, and Cultural Identity: A Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspective / Jean Webb 51
• 7 "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": The Child as Redeemer / Margot Hillel 57
• II. Nineteenth-Century Instances 71
• 8 Lear's India and the Politics of Nonsense / Sumanyu Satpathy 73
• 9 Decadence for Kids: Salgari's Corsaro Nero in Context / Ann Lawson Lucas 81
• 10 "In These Days of Scientific Charity": Orphanages and Social Engineering in Dear Enemy / Claudia Nelson 91
• III. Modern and Postmodern Instances 101
• 11 Refugee Status: The Displaced Southeast Asian Adolescent in Post-1975 Life and Literature / Alida Allison 103
• 12 The Sky Is Falling: Children as Environmental Subjects in Contemporary Picture Books / Clare Bradford 111
• 13 Playing with Frames: Spatial Images in Children's Fiction / Cheryl McMillan 121
• 14 We Are All in the Dumps with Bakhtin: Humor and the Holocaust / Lydia Williams 129
• IV. Science Fiction and Fantasy 137
• 15 Shifting Shapes of Fear in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife / Millicent Lenz 139
• 16 The Ethical Dimension of Children's Literature: A Study of Drejcek in Trije Marsovcki (Drejcek and the Three Martians) / Metka Kordigel 147
• V. Masculinities 155
• 17 Uneasy Men in the Land of Oz / Yoshido Junko 157
• 18 Representations of Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Fiction / Kerry Mallan 169
• 19 Leaving the Men to Drown? Fin de Siecle Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Children's Fiction / Beverley Pennell 179
• VI. Cyberculture 189
• 20 Welcome to the Game: Cyberspace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction / Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs 191
• 21 Competency and Resistance: A Double Perspective on Teaching Books to Children in the Next Millennium / Leona W. Fisher 199.

Notes:

• "Published under the auspices of the International Research Society for Children's Literature."
• Papers from the Fourteenth Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association, held in July 1999 in Calgary, Alberta.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-212) and index.

ISBN:

0313321205

OCLC:

48643184