Children's Literature and the Fin de SiÃ¨cle

Name: Children's Literature and the Fin de SiÃ¨cle
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ISBN: 9780313321207

ISBN-10: 0313321205

ISBN-13: 9780313321207

Edition: 2002

Authors: Roderick McGillis

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The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. These feelings stem from various events, such as political turmoil, scientific advancements, and social change. As might be expected, literature reflects such changes and the feelings they engender. But perhaps more surprisingly, children's literature is especially sensitive to such matters, and fiction for children often struggles with dark and unpleasant issues. This book examines fin de siecle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's literature from around the world. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor,…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siecle




Overviews



A Tale of Three Tenses




The Decline and Rise of Literary Nonsense in the Twentieth Century




The Century of the Child: Dutch Children's Poetry in the Twentieth Century




Ending Only to Begin Again: The Child Reader and One Hundred Years of Sequel and Series Writing




Voices of Protest: One Hundred Years of German Pacifist Children's Literature




Walking into the Sky: Englishness, Heroism, and Cultural Identity: A Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspective




"A Little Child Shall Lead Them": The Child as Redeemer




Nineteenth-Century Instances



Lear's India and the Politics of Nonsense




Decadence for Kids: Salgari's Corsaro Nero in Context




"In These Days of Scientific Charity": Orphanages and Social Engineering in Dear Enemy




Modern and Postmodern Instances



Refugee Status: The Displaced Southeast Asian Adolescent in Post-1975 Life and Literature




The Sky Is Falling: Children as Environmental Subjects in Contemporary Picture Books




Playing with Frames: Spatial Images in Children's Fiction




We Are All in the Dumps with Bakhtin: Humor and the Holocaust




Science Fiction and Fantasy



Shifting Shapes of Fear in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife




The Ethical Dimension of Children's Literature: A Study of Drejcek in Trije Marsovcki (Drejcek and the Three Martians)




Masculinities



Uneasy Men in the Land of Oz




Representations of Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Fiction




Leaving the Men to Drown? Fin de Siecle Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Children's Fiction




Cyberculture



Welcome to the Game: Cyberspace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction




Competency and Resistance: A Double Perspective on Teaching Books to Children in the Next Millennium



Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Contributors