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Mystery in children's literature : from the rational to the supernatural
- Title
- Mystery in children's literature : from the rational to the supernatural / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 228 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Children's stories, English > History and criticism
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Children's stories, American > History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism
- Horror tales > History and criticism
- Supernatural in literature
- Rationalism in literature
- Mystery in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Mystery in children's literature from the rational to the supernatural : an introduction / Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge -- 'so great and beautiful that I cannot write them' : religious mystery and children's literature / Pat Pinsent -- Nancy's ancestors : the mystery of imaginative female power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess / Mary Jeannette Moran -- Juvenile detective and social class : Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew mysteries / Troy Boone -- Children's detective fiction and the 'perfect crime' of adulthood / Christopher Routledge -- Digging up the family plot : secrets, mystery, and the Blytonesque / David Rudd -- Plotting the past : the detective as historian in the novels of Philippa Pearce / Valerie Krips -- Secret development of a girl writer : Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy / Robin Amelia Morris -- Apparition and apprehension : supernatural mystery and emergent womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and novels by Margaret Mahy / Adrienne E. Gavin.
- Possessed by the beast : subjectivity and agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell / Clare Bradford -- 'There are worse things than ghosts' : reworking horror chronotopes in Australian children's fiction / John Stephens and Robyn McCallum -- Mysteries of postmodern epistemology : Stratemeyer, Stine, and contemporary mystery for children / Karen Coats -- Harry Potter and the mystery of ordinary life / Christopher Routledge -- Enigma's variation : the puzzling mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg / Adrienne E. Gavin.
- Call Number
- JFD 01-12170
- ISBN
- 0333918819
- LCCN
- 00062697
- OCLC
- 44927045
- Title
- Mystery in children's literature : from the rational to the supernatural / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962-Routledge, Christopher, 1968-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 01-12170