1st Edition

Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

By Kirsten Stirling Copyright 2012
172 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book’s complicated textual history, exploring its origins in... Read more

Acknowledgements  Abbreviations and References  Introduction: The Shadow of Peter Pan  1. Origins and Storytelling  2. Peter and Pantomime  3. Wendy and Peter  4. Before Peter Pan: Loisel 5. Imagining Barrie  6. Ending Peter Pan  7. Sequels  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Kirsten Stirling teaches in the English department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text (2008) and has published articles on Scottish literature and the poetry of John Donne.

"Her analysis is compelling... [An] interesting and highly readable text." - Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Mythlore

"Stirling's bibliography is a model of thorough research and her analysis offers fresh ideas for Peter Pan Studies." - Children's Literature Assocation Quarterly.