Divided Worlds Studies in Children's Literature

by Thompson, Mary Shine; Coghlan, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9781846820113
• ISBN10: 1846820111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-20
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

This volume, the third collection of studies in children's literature, explores the political, social and cultural divisions that dominate children's books, ranging over Irish and international topics and texts. Articles on the fiction of Katherine Tynan, Maria Edgeworth and Somerville & Ross, as well as modern Ulster fiction and contemporary children's publishing, are indicative of the range of Irish material. The international focus extends from Luigi Bertelli's treatment of fascism and Gianni Rodari's communism to the English contexts of Cecil Alexander's English hymns. Rosemary Sutcliffe's Roman Britain series is revisited to explore its masculinities, and gendered divisions are the subject of a review of Oisin McGann's recent fantasy fiction. (Series: Studies in Children's Literature)

Table of Contents

A divided union : reformation and reconciliation in Maria Edgeworth's Orlandino	p. 22
'Wild Irish with a vengeance' : definitions of Irishness in Katharine Tynan's children's literature	p. 32
The little big house : Somerville and Ross's works for children	p. 41
Teenage tantrums and territorial traumas : public and private pasts in Melody for Nora	p. 50
'It's the way we tell 'em' : voices from Ulster children's fiction	p. 61
F(r)ictional masculinities : the representation of manhood in Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman Britain series of novels for young adults	p. 76
The 'aventures of men in the perilous realm' : portrayals of conflict in two contemporary Irish fantasy novels for ' 'tween' readers	p. 86
Translations of a land-locked island : maternal identity and forced migration	p. 96
'I'm not interested in faces' : self-inflicted isolation in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	p. 104
And who will fight for Ireland? : the Great War, propaganda and the representation of conflict in children's popular literature	p. 115
Our boys, de Valera's Ireland and the European crisis, 1932-9	p. 126
'The ants go marching in' - ant-fascism from Ciondolino to Autz	p. 139
Political, social and cultural divisions in the work of Gianni Rodari	p. 149
The depiction of class in Mrs. Alexander's Hymns for little children	p. 159
Values and primary school textbooks in Ireland, 1900-99	p. 170
Poetry in Irish primary school English-language readers, 1922-50	p. 186
Divisions in the world of Irish publishing for children : re-colonization or globalization?	p. 196
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