Mystery in children's literature
Mystery in children's literature from the rational to the supernatural
edited by Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge
Publisher: Houndmills, Hampshire, UK ; Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
ISBN: 6610223203
DDC: 823.0872099282
Edition: (electronic bk.)
Notes:
Title from e-book title screen (viewed August 25, 2006).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Mystery in
Children's Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: an
Introduction -- 2 so great and beautiful that I cannot write them':
Religious Mystery and Children's Literature -- 3 Nancy's Ancestors:
the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A
Little Princess -- 4 The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark
Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew Mysteries -- 5
Children's Detective Fiction and the Perfect Crime' of Adulthood -- 6
Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque --
7 Plotting the Past: the Detective as Historian in the Novels of
Philippa Pearce -- 8 The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise
Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy -- 9 Apparition and Apprehension:
Supernatural Mystery and Emergent Womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering
Heights, and Novels by Margaret Mahy -- 10 Possessed by the Beast:
Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell -- 11
There Are Worse Things Than Ghosts': Reworking Horror Chronotopes in
Australian Children's Fiction -- 12 The Mysteries of Postmodern
Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for
Children -- 13 Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life -- 14
Enigma's Variation: the Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin,
Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg
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