Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Author and Authorship; S.Walsh Victorian Childhood; C.Sutphin Reading; J.H.Miller The Implied Reader; N.Cocks Children's Literature, Science and Faith; L.M.Harper The Child, The Family, The Relationship: S.Thomson Reading Intertextuality; D.Caselli National Identity; J.Lazu Landscapes; S.Spooner Index

About the Author

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein is Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature at the University of Reading, where she is also Director of the Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media' (CIRCL) and the MA in Children's Literature. Previous publications include Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child, Children in Culture: Approaches to Childhood (ed.) and numerous articles in the fields of theory, gender, childhood and philosophy.