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Title:
The land of story-books : Scottish children's literature in the long nineteenth century / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Shu-Fang Lai.
Publisher:
Scottish Literature International,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xxix, 445 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Children's stories, Scottish--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Children's stories, Scottish.
English fiction.
English fiction--Scottish authors.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Authors:
Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002017113
Lai, Shu-Fang, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2008014453
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Series:
Occasional papers / Association for Scottish Literary Studies ; number 23
ISBN:
190898029X
9781908980298
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1104035958
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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