Children's Literature: Volume 23

Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association

by Francelia Butler (Editor), R.H.W. Dillard (Editor), Elizabeth Lennox Keyser (Editor)

Articles: The Erotics of Pedagogy: Historical Intervention, Literary Representation, the "Gift of Education," and the Agency of Children, by Mitzi Myers / Letters On a Tombstone: Mothers and Literacy In Mary Lamb's Mrs. Leicester's School, by Jean I. Marsden / Who Writes and Who Is Written? Barbara Newhall Follett and Typing the Natural Child, by Naomi J. Wood / Of Mimicry and (Wo)man: Infans or Forked Tongue?, by Mitzi Myers / "Thy Speech Is Strange and Uncouth": Language In the Children's Historical Novel of the Middle Ages, by Miriam Youngerman Miller / From Vanity Fair to Emerald City: Baum's Debt to Bunyan, by J. Karl Franson / Dwarf, Small World, Shrinking Child: Three Versions of Miniature, by Caroline C. Hunt / Imagination, Rejection, and Rescue: Recurrent Themes in Dr. Seuss, by Tim Wolf / Leap of Faith in Astrid Lindgren's Brothers Lionheart, by Eva-Maria Metcalf / Reinventing the Past: Gender in Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu and the Earthsea "Trilogy", Perry Nodelman / Is Flying Extraordinary? Patricia MacLachlan's Use of Aporia, by Roberta Seelinger Trites / Remembering Always to Come Back: The Child's Wished-For Escape and the Adult's Self-Empowered Return in Sandra Cisnero's House on Mango Street, by Reuben Sánchez

Reviews: Children's Literature and Considered Bravado, by Gary D. Schmidt / Toward the Definition of a Canon, by Darwin L. Henderson / The Drama of the Erotic Child, by Naomi J. Wood / Speaking As a Child/Hearing As an Adult, by Elizabeth N. Goodenough / A Varied and Useful Text, by Evelyn Butler

Dissertations of Note, by Rachel Fordyce / Contributors and Editors / Award Applications

Hardcover

First published May 24, 1995