Modern Children's Literature

List of Contributors.- List of Boxes.- List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction; Catherine Butler.- PART I: MAPPING THE TERRITORY.- 1. The Classic and the Canon in Children's Literature; Peter Hunt.- 2. Fantasy in Children's Fiction; Farah Mendlesohn.- 3. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Children's Literature; David Rudd.- 4. Reading Contemporary Picture Books; Judith Graham.- 5. Poetry for Children; Michael Rosen.- PART II: TEXTS AND GENRES.- 6. Family, Identity and Nationhood: Family Stories in Anglo-American Children's Literature, 1930-2000; Lucy Pearson.- 7. Theories of Genre and Gender: Change and Continuity in the School Story; Pat Pinsent.- 8. Literature of War: Comparative and Autobiographical Approaches; Gillian Lathey.- 9. Language, Genres and Issues: The Socially Committed Novel; Pat Pinsent.- 10. Past Settings, Contemporary Concerns: Feminist Historical Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century; Peter Bramwell.- 11. Postmodernism, New Historicism and Postcolonialism: Some Recent Historical Novels; Pat PinsentPART III: APPROACHES AND ISSUES.- 12. Chronotopes and Heritage: Time and Memory in Contemporary Children's Literature; Lisa Sainsbury.- 13. Childhood, Youth Culture and the Uncanny: Uncanny Nights in Contemporary Fiction for Young People; Lisa Sainsbury.- 14. Magic and Maturation: Uses of Magic in Fantasy Fiction; Peter Bramwell.- 15. Supermen, Cyborgs, Avatars and Geeks: Technology and the Human in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction; Richard Shakeshaft.- 16. Voicing Identity: The Dilemma of Narrative Perspective in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fiction; Maria Nikolajeva.- Further Reading.- Index.

Catherine Butler is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK.
 

Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at Newcastle University, UK.