| Description |
xxi, 242 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 120 |
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Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 120
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Illustrations ix -- -- Acknowledgements xi -- -- Introduction -- -- The Past in the Present of Children's Literature -- Ann Lawson Lucas xiii -- -- -- Part I. Presenting the Past - Writers, Books, Critics: -- Theoretical Approaches -- -- 1. Fiction Versus History: History's Ghosts -- Danielle Thaler 3 -- -- 2. From Literary Text to Literary Field: -- Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars; -- a Re-reading -- Rolf Rom 0ren 13 -- -- -- -- -- 3. Historical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality -- in History and Fiction -- Deborah Stevenson 23 -- -- -- Part II. Myths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and Fiction -- -- 4. In and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc -- by Maurice Boutet de Monvel -- Isabelle Nieres-Chevrel 33 -- -- 5. Reinventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc -- in French and English Children's Literature -- Penny Brown 41 -- -- 6. History and Collective Memory -- in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young -- Francesca Blockeel 53 -- -- 7. The Descendants of Robinson Crusoe -- in North American Children's Literature -- Tina L. Hanlon 61 -- -- -- Part III. Adventures in History -- -- 8. Constructions of History in Victorian -- and Edwardian Children's Books -- Thomas Kullmann 73 -- -- 9. 'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India -- and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess -- Dennis Butts 81 -- -- -- Part IV. Colonial, Postcolonial -- -- 10. Doctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism -- David Steege 91 -- -- 11. Picturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children -- Clare Bradford 99 -- -- -- -- 12. Narrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence Paula T Connolly 107 -- -- 13. Narrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine -- in Recent Stories for Children -- Celia Keenan 113 -- -- -- Part V. War, Postwar -- -- 14. On the Use of Books for Children -- in Creating the German National Myth -- Zohar Shavit 123 -- -- 15. Reverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries -- in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature -- Susan Tebbutt 133 -- -- 16. War Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History -- in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy -- and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sindfrei -- Gillian Lathey 143 -- -- -- Part VI. Modern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place -- -- 17. "House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story -- in the Aftermath of the Second World War -- Linda Hall 153 -- -- 18. The Past Reimagined: History and Literary Creation in British -- Children's Novels after World War Two -- Adrienne E. Gavin 159 -- -- 19. England's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's -- The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House -- Pamela Knights 167 -- -- -- Part VII. Masculine, Feminism - and the History of Fantasy -- -- 20. Re-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle Tony Watkins 179 -- -- -- -- -- 21. The "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet -- Yoshida Junko 187 -- -- 22. Witch-Figures in Recent Children's Fiction: -- The Subaltern and the Subversive -- John Stephens 195 -- -- -- Afterword: -- On the Future for Children's Literature -- -- The Duty of Interet Internationalism: -- Roald Dahls of the World, Unite! -- Jean Perrot 205 -- -- -- Select Bibliography 225 -- -- Index 229 -- -- About the Editor and Contributors 237 |
| Summary |
Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past. The historical novel of the West grew out of Romanticism, with its exploration of the inner world of feeling, and it grew to full vigor in the era of imperialism and the exploration of the physical world. From the end of the 18th century, children's books flourished, partly in response to these cultural and political influences. After Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, literary works began to grapple with skepticism about the nature of time itself. This book explores how children's writers have presented the theme and concept of time past. While the book looks primarily at literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, it considers a broad range of historical material treated in works from that period. Included are discussions of such topics as Joan of Arc in children's literature, the legacy of Robinson Crusoe, colonial and postcolonial children's literature, the Holocaust, and the supernatural. International in scope, the volume examines history and collective memory in Portuguese children's fiction, Australian history in picture books, Norwegian children's literature, and literary treatments of the great Irish famine. So too, the expert contributors are from diverse countries and backgrounds |
| Notes |
"Prepared under the auspices of the International Research Society for Children's Literature"--T.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-228) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading.
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History in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Lawson Lucas, Ann.
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International Research Society for Children's Literature.
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| LC no. |
2002029771 |
| ISBN |
0313324832 alkaline paper |
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