Research Catalog

Title

E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy : a children's classic at 100 / edited by Raymond E. Jones.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jones, Raymond E.

Description

xxv, 273 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Children's Literature Association centennial studies series ; no. 3

Uniform Title

Children's Literature Association centennial studies ; no. 3.

Subjects

• Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
• Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Story of the amulet
• Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Phoenix and the carpet
• Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Five children and it
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism
• Children > Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The "It" girl (and boy) : idoleogies of gender in the Psammead trilogy / Claudia Nelson -- A momentary hunger : Fabianism and didacticism in E. Nesbit's writing for children / Monica Flegel -- The beginning of the end : writing empire in E. Nesbit's Psammead books / Mavis Reimer -- Generic manipulation and mutation : E. Nesbit's Psammead series as early magical realism / Teya Rosenberg -- Materiality, the wish, and the marvelous : E. Nesbit's comic sprituality in the Psammead trilogy / Naomi Wood -- Communicating humor in E. Nesbit's fantasy trilogy / Donna R. White -- Where it was, there shall five children be : staging desire in Five children and it / David Rudd -- Textual building blocks : Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit's literary borrowings in Five children and it / Jan Susina -- Five children and it : some parallels with the nineteenth-century moral tale / Ann Dowker -- News from E. Nesbit : The story of the amulet and the socialist utopia / Suzanne Rahn -- The amulet and other stories of time / Julia Briggs -- "Exactly as it was"? H. R. Millar's expansions and subversions of the Psammead trilogy / Jennifer Marchant -- Only half magic : Edward Eager's revision of Nesbit's Psammead trilogy / Esther Gilman Richey.

Call Number

JFD 06-9954

ISBN

0810854015 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005034242
• 9780810854017

OCLC

• 62408611
• vendorOCM62408611

Title

E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy : a children's classic at 100 / edited by Raymond E. Jones.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Series

Children's Literature Association centennial studies series ; no. 3

Children's Literature Association centennial studies ; no. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Jones, Raymond E.

Other Standard Identifier

9780810854017

Research Call Number

JFD 06-9954