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Mystery in Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Mystery in Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-02-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

The first book to assess critically mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognised scholars in the field, these thirteen original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of both classic and popular mysteries for children. This volume will be essential and stimulating reading for anyone with an interest in children's literature or in mystery fiction.

A Companion to Crime Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

A Companion to Crime Fiction

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Dark Horse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Dark Horse

This biography reveals the life of Anna Sewell - her experiences, her beliefs, and the sympathy with animals and their suffering that drove her to write her famous work, 'Black Beauty'.

Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 463

Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-10
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).

British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives i...

The Blue Lagoon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

The Blue Lagoon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-16
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  • Publisher: DigiCat

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Blue Lagoon" (A Romance) by H. De Vere Stacpoole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

D. H. Lawrence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

D. H. Lawrence

Presents a brief biography of D.H. Lawrence, critical views and plot summaries of four of his novels, and an index of themes and ideas.

Charlotte Brönte’s road to reality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245
The Morals of Monster Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

The Morals of Monster Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-07
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all--makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters' behaviors on the page and interpret them in the context of their own lives. But unlike many picture books, most children's lives don't feature monsters. This collection of new essays explores the societally sanctioned behaviors imparted to children through the use of monsters and supernatural characters. Topics include monsters as instructors, the normalization of strangers or the "other," fostering gender norms, and therapeutic monsters, among others.

Victims more than Villains: Images of the Child in McEwan’s Novels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 17

Victims more than Villains: Images of the Child in McEwan’s Novels

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