Children's literature and imaginative geography / Aïda Hudson, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Aïda, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Geography in literature.

Imaginary places in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 357 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or Pacificus, from the semi-fantastic Wild Wood to real-world places like Canada's North, Chicago's World Fair, or the modern urban garden. What happens to young protagonists who explore new worlds, whether fantastic or realistic? What happens when Old World and New World myths collide? How do Indigenous myth and sense of place figure in books for the young? How do environmental or post-colonial concerns, history, memory, or even the unconscious affect an author's creation of place? How are steampunk and science fiction mythically re-enchanting for children? Imaginative geography means imaged earth writing: it creates what readers see when they enter the world of fiction. Exploring diverse genres for children, including picture books, fantasy, steampunk, and realistic novels as well as plays from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present, Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography provides new geographical perspectives on children's literature.

Contents:

Pullman and imperialism: navigating the geographic imagination in The Golden Compass / Cory Sampson

Nineteenth-century British children's literature and the North / Colleen M. Franklin

Envisioning Ireland: landscape and longing in children's literature / Margot Hillel

From vanity to World's Fair: the landscape of John Bunyan's allegory in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrims' Progress / Shannon Murray

Old world, new world, other world: overcoming prosaic landscape with The Golden Pine Cone / Linda Knowles

Healing relationships with the natural environment by reclaiming indigenous space in Aron Paquette's Lightfinder / Petra Fachinger

History, hills, and lowlands: in conversation with Janet Lunn / Aïda Hudson

How does your garden grow? The eco-imaginative space of the garden in contemporary children's picture books / Melissa Li Shbung Ying

Into the (not so) wild: nature without and within in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows / Alan West

Earth, sea, and sky writing in Becca at Sea / Deirdre F. Baker

The imaginary north in Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen / Joanne Findon

Camping out on the quest: the landscape of boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / Sarah Fiona Winters

Sky sailing: steampunk's re-enchantment of flight / Christine Bolus-Reichert

Mythic re-enchantment: the imaginative geography of Madeleine L'Engle's time quintet / Monika Hilder

Female places in Earthsea / Peter Hynes

Dancing and hinting at worlds in theatre for young audiences / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey

Following the path of the unconscious in the Owen Skye Books, and others / Alan Cumyn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.

ISBN:

9781771123273

1771123273

9781771123266

1771123265

OCLC:

1085233159