Children’s Literature: New Approaches

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction. Children’s Literature: New Approaches....Pages 1-24
Author and Authorship. Effigies of Effie: On Kipling’s Biographies....Pages 25-50
Victorian Childhood. Reading Beyond the ‘Innocent Title’: Home Thoughts and Home Scenes....Pages 51-77
Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality....Pages 78-92
The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism....Pages 93-117
Children’s Literature, Science and Faith: The Water-Babies....Pages 118-143
The Child, The Family, The Relationship. Familiar Stories: Family, Storytelling, and Ideology in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials....Pages 144-167
Reading Intertextuality. The Natural and the Legitimate: Intertextuality in ‘Harry Potter’....Pages 168-188
National Identity. Where the Wild, Strange and Exotic Things Are: In Search of the Caribbean in Contemporary Children’s Literature....Pages 189-205
Landscapes: ‘Going foreign’ in Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck....Pages 206-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-235