The land of story-books Scottish children's literature in the long nineteenth century / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Shu-Fang Lai.
| Other author | Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971- |
| Other author | Lai, Shu-Fang. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Glasgow : Scottish Literature International, 2019. |
| Description | xxix, 445 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Occasional papers / Association for Scottish Literary Studies ; number 23 Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) ; no. 23. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Educating the female child : debates from the Scottish periodical press in enlightenment Scotland, 1750-1800 / Rhona Brown -- The young person's Sir Walter : Scott and the nineteenth-century child reader / Paul Barnaby -- 'Entertaining and instructing histories' : children's chapbook literature in the nineteenth century / Valentina Bold -- Nature versus nurture : Robert Chambers as a writer for children / Shu-Fang Lai -- The Scottish nursery muse : Scottish poetry and the children's verse tradition in the Victorian period / Kirstie Blair -- Gaelic tradition and the Celtic revival in children's literature in Scottish Gaelic and English / Sìm Innes and Kate Louise Mathis -- Historical facts and 'romantic daring' : Thomas Nelson & Sons, the adventure tale, and the late-Victorian education market / Anne Marie Hagen -- Symbolism and empire : Stevenson, Scott, and toy soldiers / Adam Kozaczka -- The darkening island : Stevenson, Barrie, and the perils of childhood / Timothy S. Hayes -- Colonising Neverland : British motherhood as imaginative play in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy / Rodney M.D. Fierce -- 'Staunch little democrat that he was' : humanitarian sentiment, social reform, and political idealism in Eleanor Atkinson's Greyfriars Bobby / David Salter -- Youthful visionaries in Margaret Oliphant's fin-de-siecle fiction / Anne Stapleton -- A Scottish child's memento mori : language, folklore, and landscape in George MacDonald's Ranald Bannerman's boyhood / J. Patrick Pazdziora -- Betwixt-and-between : Barrie, Shakespeare, and playing at childhood / Caitlin R. Hansen -- Two telling tales : didacticism as a means of feminine empowerment in Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House and Dinah Mulock Craik's Alice Learmont / Linda Claridge Middup -- Romance, death and other predicaments : guidance for the young in the fiction of Mary Gordon (Mrs. Disney Leith) / Janet Powney and Jeremy Mitchell -- Unlocking Scottish balladry and folklore in George MacDonald's 'The golden key' / Linden Bicket -- 'A great, unlimited world'? Imaginative locations in the fairy tales of Jessie Saxby and Violet Jacob / Sarah Dunnigan -- 'To children and others' : audience, advertising, and the reception of Andrew Lang's fairy books (1889-1910) / Sara M. Hines -- 'It is lovely to be five' / Lyn Stevens, Danielle Howarth, Morgan Boharski, Joanna Witkowska. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019410008 |
| ISBN | 9781908980298 paperback |
| ISBN | 190898029X paperback |
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