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Scholars from 10 countries address children's literature as a literary art form and provide an international perspective on its history and evolution.

Table of Contents

Approaches to the History of Children's Literature. By Way of Introduction Literary Ways of Killing a Child: The Nineteenth-Century Practice by Judith Plotz Theory and Method A Historical Model of the Development of Children's Literature by Zohar Shavit Children's Literature as a Cultural Code: A Semiotic Approach to History by Maria Nikolajeva Writers Writing a Short History of Children's Literature within Their Texts by Isabelle Nieres Equal But Different? The Incorporation of Children's Books in National Histories of Literature by Sonja Svensson Influence and Interaction The Changing Image of Germany and the Germans in British Children's Literature from 1870 to the Present by Emer O'Sullivan Children's Literature in France and Italy in the Nineteenth Century: Influence and Exchange by Mariella Colin Scandinavian Writer/Illustrator: Bicultural Contribution to American Children's Literature by Karen Nelson Hoyle International Influence on the 19th Century Finnish Children's Literature by Rita KuivasMÄki Aspects of National Histories Nationalism Seen as an Aspect of the History of Norwegian Children's Literature 1914-1905 by Kari Skjonsberg Views on Children's Literature in the Netherlands after 1880 by Anne de Vries Lame Old Bachelor, Lonely Old Maid: Harriet Childe-Pemberton's "All My Doing, or Red Riding Hood Over Again" by Roderick McGillis Genres, Modes, Styles National Myth in Three Classical Picture Books by Reinbert Tabbert Reconstructing the Homeland: Loss and Hope in the English Landscape by Tony Watkins Literature for Young People and the Novel of Adolescence by Dagmar Grenz The Origin and Function of Laughter in Children's Literature by Maria Lypp Index

About the Author

MARIA NIKOLAJEVA is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University where she teaches children's literature. She is the current president of the International Research Society for Children's Literature and author of The Magic Code: The Use of Magical Patterns in Fantasy for Children.