"Selected papers from the inaugural conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature"--Pref.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Mary Shine Thompson -- Reading English Renaissance children and the early modern stage / A.J. Piesse -- Rebuilding Castle Blair : a reading of Flora Shaw's 1878 children's novel / Robert Dunbar -- The wild Irish girls of L.T. Meade and Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey / Carole Dunbar -- The voyeur / Aine Nic Gabhann -- School stories / Declan Kiberd -- Golliwog : genealogy of a non-PC icon / David Rudd -- Colonialization of food in children's literature : apple pie or Turkish delight? / Ann Alston -- Robert Frost and Edward Thomas : poets' stories / Deborah Thacker -- The development of Patricia Lynch's writing in the light of an exploration of new archival material / Margaret Burke -- The Talbot Press and its religious publications for children / Mary Flynn -- Forging national identity : the adventure stories of Eilis Dillon / Ciara Ni Bhroin -- Wars of independence : the construction of Irish histories in the work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhan Parkinson / Padraic Whyte -- A theory without a centre : developing childist criticism / Sebastien Chapleau -- Alchemy and alco pops : breaking the ideology trap / Kimberley Reynolds -- The hero in the twenty-first century : transgressing the heroic gender construct / Jane O'Hanlon -- Crocodiles and naked pigs : motifs and motives in Max Velthuijs's picturebooks / Howard Hollands and Victoria de Rijke -- Artists' books for a cross-audience / Sandra L. Beckett.
