Modern children's literature : an introduction / edited by Kimberley Reynolds.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.

-- Theories of genre and gender: change and continuity in the school story / Pat Pinsent -- Sociology, politics, the family: children and families in Anglo-American children's fiction, 1920-60 / Kimberley Reynolds -- Fantasy, psychology, and feminism: Jungian readings of classic British fantasy fiction / Susan Hancock -- Autobiography and history: literature of war / Gillian Lathey -- Comparative and psychoanalytic approaches: personal history and collective memory / Gillian Lathey -- Fantasy-postwar, postmodern, postcolonial: houses in postwar fantasy / Sarah Godek -- Feminism and history: historical fiction-not just a thing of the past / Peter Bramwell -- Childhood, youth culture and the uncanny: uncanny nights in contemporary adolescent fiction / Lisa Sainsbury -- Fantasy, psychoanalysis and adolescence: magic and maturation in fantasy / Peter Bramwell -- Chronotopes and heritage: time and memory in contemporary children's literature / Lisa Sainsbury -- Postmodern, new historicism and migration: new historical novels / Pat Pinsent -- Language, genres and issues: the socially committed novel / Pat Pinsent -- Reading contemporary picturebooks / Judith Graham -- Picturebook case study: politics and philosophy in the work of Raymond Briggs / Lisa Sainsbury -- Electronic texts and adolescent agency: computers and the internet in contemporary children's fiction / Noga Applebaum.