TY - BOOK AU - Reynolds,Kimberley TI - Modern children's literature: an introduction SN - 140391611X AV - PR990 .M63 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Children's literature, English KW - History and criticism KW - Children's literature, American KW - Children KW - Books and reading KW - English-speaking countries N1 - 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 ER -