Children's Literature; Volume 29

by Edited by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser and Julie Pfeiffer

• ISBN13: 9780300088922
• ISBN10: 0300088922
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-06-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association

Table of Contents

From the Editors	vii
Articles
Guarding the British Bible from Rousseau: Sarah Trimmer, William Godwin, and the Pedagogical Periodical	1	(17)
Donelle Ruwe
Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century French Children's Literature: The Example of La Bibliotheque Rose	18	(16)
Ruth Carver Capasso
``Wake up, and be a man'': Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of Submission	34	(18)
Ken Parille
Drying the Orphan's Tear: Changing Representations of the Dependent Child in America, 1870--1930	52	(19)
Claudia Nelson
The ``Disappointed'' House: Trance, Loss, and the Uncanny in L. M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy	71	(20)
Kate Lawson
Once upon a Time in Aframerica: The ``Peculiar'' Significance of Fairies in the Brownies' Book	91	(22)
Fern Kory
How They Do Things with Words: Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books	113	(29)
Laura B. Comoletti
Michael D. C. Drout
``Never overlook the art of the seemingly simple'': Crockett Johnson and the Politics of the Purple Crayon	142	(33)
Philip Nel
Pardoic Play with Paintings in Picture Books	175	(21)
Sandra Beckett
The End of Empire? Colonial and Postcolonial Journeys in Children's Books	196	(23)
Clare Bradford
Reviews
The Key to the Treasure	219	(10)
Gillian Adams
Was the Snark a Boojum? One Hundred Years of Lewis Carroll Biographies	229	(15)
Carolyn Singler
B Is for Battle: Children and the Civil War	244	(8)
Katharine Capshaw Smith
``Dis House done gone Crezzeh'': A Consideration of Literary Blackness	252	(8)
Michelle H. Martin
Little Black Sambo Revisited	260	(7)
Nina Mikkelsen
Freud and Toad Are Friends	267	(8)
Mary Galbraith
Inside Picture Books, Outside of History	275	(6)
Philip Nel
Dissertations of Note	281	(18)
Rachel Fordyce
Elizabeth Mayfield
Contributors and Editors	299	(2)
Award Applications	301	(2)
Order Forms	303