Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood & Children's Literature 

Edited by Clare Bradford & Valerie Coghlan
Assistant Editors Kerry Mallan & Mary Shine Thompson
Consultant Editor: Kimberley Reynolds
paperback £18.00  ISBN 978 0 955 21062 4 
2007

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A truly international collection, these illuminating and informative essays focus on children's literature from many parts of the world, written in a wide range of types and 
genres. Through combining a lively conversation amongst multiple approaches and scholarly traditions with rigorous scholarship, they offer readers a rare insight into global Children's Literature and the ways in which it is read.

John Stephens

The proceedings of the 17th biennial conference of IRSCL held in Dublin in 2005

Contents Introduction 1 Clare Bradford and Valerie Coghlan                              Irish Literature and Children   Literature, Childhood and Ireland 13 Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin, Ireland        Childhood and Families   Narrative and Characterization in Three Recent Children’s and Young Adult Novels 29 Siobhán Parkinson, Dublin, Ireland               Adoption and Nineteenth-century American Children’s Literature 40 Carol J Singley, Rutgers University, USA        Family Performances: The Role of Childhood and Family in Eighteenth-Century Children’s Drama in Germany 56 Ute Dettmar, Centre for Children’s Literature Research, Frankfurt, Germany                 Photographing the Almost-family in the Weetzie Bat Books 66 Yoshida Junko, Kobe College, Japan            Not Equal to the Phallic Legacy: Contemporary Boys’ Books in English Canada 76 Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg, Canada            Childhood and Ideologies   Erasmus’s Senile Colloquium (1524), or a “Joyous Conversation” on Happiness for Young People 89 Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada       Children’s Bibles: Sacralized and Problematic 97 Ruth B Bottigheimer, University of Innsbruck, Austria             “In the Hope White People Will Like Them”: Andrew Lang and the Colonization of Fairyland 111 Björn Sundmark, Malmö University, Sweden               Dust, Daemons and Deicide: Philip Pullman’s Theologies of Childhood 122 Robert A Davis, University of Glasgow, Scotland         “The Passionate Dust of Mortality”: Creative World-making and Moral Agency in C.S. Lewis, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman 135 Naomi Wood, Kansas State University, USA              Intersubjectivity, Evil and Moral Development in Ursula Le Guin’s Gifts 146 Beppie Keane, Macquarie University, Australia            A Discourse in its Own Right: The Holocaust in Contemporary Children’s Literature 157 Katrien Vloeberghs, University of Antwerp, Belgium                Childhood and Theory   Fowl Play: Artemis Fowl, Sitting Ducks and Politics for Children 169 Elizabeth Parsons, Deakin University, Australia          Let Children’s Wounds Speak: Reading Thursday’s Child as a Trauma Narrative for Children 178 Fiona Feng-Hsin Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan       Novelizing the Fairy Tale: The Case of Gregory Maguire 191 Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp, Belgium        Told for Children? Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales and their Audiences 202 Nina Christensen, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark                 Ludic Child Metamorphs: Picturebooks, Playfulness and Power 210 Maria Lassén-Seger, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland       Male in the Dark: The Gothic and Masculinity in Harald Rosenløw Eeg’s Inside Out and All the Doves 223 Svein Slettan, Agder University College, Norway         Childhood on Display   Editorial Reflections: Cultural Expression and the Children’s Publication Process in the USA 237 Laura Atkins, University of Newcastle, UK                  The Tale of One Bad Rat: The Child Alone and the Alternative and Substitute Family 250 Mel Gibson, Northumbria University, UK         Avant-garde Art as Child’s Play: The Origins of Vladimir Lebedev’s Picturebook Aesthetic 259 Sara Pankenier, Stanford University, California       About the Contributors 273     Index 281