The presence of the past in children's literature

• Illustrations
• p. ix

• Acknowledgements
• p. xi

• Introduction: The Past in the Present of Children's Literature
• p. xiii

• Part I.
• Presenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics: Theoretical Approaches

• 1.
• Fiction Versus History: History's Ghosts
• p. 3

• 2.
• From Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars; a Re-reading
• p. 13

• 3.
• Historical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction
• p. 23

• Part II.
• Myths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and Fiction

• 4.
• In and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc by Maurice Boutet de Monvel
• p. 33

• 5.
• Reinventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and English Children's Literature
• p. 41

• 6.
• History and Collective Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young
• p. 53

• 7.
• The Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature
• p. 61

• Part III.
• Adventures in History

• 8.
• Constructions of History in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books
• p. 73

• 9.
• 'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess
• p. 81

• Part IV.
• Colonial, Postcolonial

• 10.
• Doctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism
• p. 91

• 11.
• Picturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children
• p. 99

• 12.
• Narrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence
• p. 107

• 13.
• Narrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine in Recent Stories for Children
• p. 113

• Part V.
• War, Postwar

• 14.
• On the Use of Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth
• p. 123

• 15.
• Reverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature
• p. 133

• 16.
• War Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei
• p. 143

• Part VI.
• Modern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place

• 17.
• "House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War
• p. 153

• 18.
• The Past Reimagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels after World War Two
• p. 159

• 19.
• England's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House
• p. 167

• Part VII.
• Masculine, Feminism--and the History of Fantasy

• 20.
• Re-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle
• p. 179

• 21.
• The "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet
• p. 187

• 22.
• Witch-Figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subaltern and the Subversive
• p. 195

• Afterword: On the Future for Children's Literature

• The Duty of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite!
• p. 205

• Select Bibliography
• p. 225

• Index
• p. 229

• About the Editor and Contributors
• p. 237