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.
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Mystery in Children's Literature
From the Rational to the Supernatural
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Mystery in Children's Literature
From the Rational to the Supernatural
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- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Mystery in Childrenâs Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: an Introduction
- 2 âso great and beautiful that I cannot write themâ: Religious Mystery and Childrenâs Literature
- 3 Nancyâs Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess
- 4 The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew Mysteries
- 5 Childrenâs Detective Fiction and the âPerfect Crimeâ of Adulthood
- 6 Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque
- 7 Plotting the Past: the Detective as Historian in the Novels of Philippa Pearce
- 8 The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise Fitzhughâs Harriet the Spy
- 9 Apparition and Apprehension: Supernatural Mystery and Emergent Womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Novels by Margaret Mahy
- 10 Possessed by the Beast: Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell
- 11 âThere Are Worse Things Than Ghostsâ: Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Childrenâs Fiction
- 12 The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children
- 13 Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life
- 14 Enigmaâs Variation: the Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg
- Index
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