1st Edition
Space and Place in Children�s Literature, 1789 to the Present
Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play
Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults
1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt
2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh Barai
Part 2 Real-World Places
3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano
4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi
5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD Elzette Steenkamp
Part 3 Traversing the Imaginary
6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire
7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet Ruth Feingold
8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot Stafford
Part 4 Book Space
9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field
10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine Renaud
Epilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman
Biography
Maria Sachiko Cecire is Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of the Experimental Humanities concentration at Bard College, USA; Hannah Field is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex, UK; Kavita Mudan Finn is a visiting assistant professor at Southern New Hampshire University, USA; Malini Roy is a freelance writer and editor in Germany.
"This is a very useful addition to children's literature scholarship, with an impressive breadth of material." --Newsletter of the Children's Books History Society
"This robust anthology models an international and interdisciplinary conceptual framework for a range of critical fields, including childhood studies, cultural studies, and children’s geographies." --Erin Spring, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, The Lion and the Unicorn
