| Description |
xiii, 228 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Mystery in children's literature from the rational to the supernatural : an introduction / Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge -- 'so great and beautiful that I cannot write them' : religious mystery and children's literature / Pat Pinsent -- Nancy's ancestors : the mystery of imaginative female power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess / Mary Jeannette Moran -- Juvenile detective and social class : Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew mysteries / Troy Boone -- Children's detective fiction and the 'perfect crime' of adulthood / Christopher Routledge -- Digging up the family plot : secrets, mystery, and the Blytonesque / David Rudd -- Plotting the past : the detective as historian in the novels of Philippa Pearce / Valerie Krips -- Secret development of a girl writer : Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy / Robin Amelia Morris -- Apparition and apprehension : supernatural mystery and emergent womanhood in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and novels by Margaret Mahy / Adrienne E. Gavin |
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Possessed by the beast : subjectivity and agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell / Clare Bradford -- 'There are worse things than ghosts' : reworking horror chronotopes in Australian children's fiction / John Stephens and Robyn McCallum -- Mysteries of postmodern epistemology : Stratemeyer, Stine, and contemporary mystery for children / Karen Coats -- Harry Potter and the mystery of ordinary life / Christopher Routledge -- Enigma's variation : the puzzling mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg / Adrienne E. Gavin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales -- History and criticism.
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Mystery in literature.
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Rationalism in literature.
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Supernatural in literature.
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| Author |
Gavin, Adrienne E., 1962-
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Routledge, Christopher, 1968-
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| LC no. |
00062697 |
| ISBN |
0333918819 |
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