Introducing children's literature

• Acknowledgements

• Preface and Introduction

• Section One
• Romanticism

• 1
• Imagining the Child

• 2
• The King of the Golden River

• 3
• Closing the garret door: a feminist reading of Little Women

• Section Two
• Nineteenth-Century Literature

• 4
• Victorianism, Empire and the Paternal Voice

• 5
• Reality and Enigma in The Water-Babies

• 6
• Alice as Subject in the Logic of Wonderland

• Section Three
• The Fin de Siecle

• 7
• Testing Boundaries

• 8
• The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz: Pleasure without Nightmares

• 9
• Romanticism vs Empire in The Secret Garden

• Section Four
• Modernism

• 10
• New Voices, New Threats

• 11
• Connecting with Mary Poppins

• 12
• Spinning the Word: Charlotte's Web

• 13
• Real or Story?: The Borrowers

• Section Five
• Postmodernism

• 14
• Playful Subversion

• 15
• Clockwork, A Fairy tale for a postmodern time

• 16
• A postmodern reflection of the genre of fairy tale: The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales

• Bibliography