Children's literature and the fin de siècle / edited by Roderick McGillis.

"Published under the auspices of the International Research Society for Children's Literature."

Papers from the Fourteenth Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association, held in July 1999 in Calgary, Alberta.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-212) and index.

Introduction: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siecle / Roderick McGillis -- I. Overviews -- 1. A Tale of Three Tenses / Sheila A. Egoff -- 2. The Decline and Rise of Literary Nonsense in the Twentieth Century / Michael Heyman -- 3. The Century of the Child: Dutch Children's Poetry in the Twentieth Century / Anne de Vries -- 4. Ending Only to Begin Again: The Child Reader and One Hundred Years of Sequel and Series Writing / Rose Lovell-Smith -- 5. Voices of Protest: One Hundred Years of German Pacifist Children's Literature / Susan Tebbutt -- 6. Walking into the Sky: Englishness, Heroism, and Cultural Identity: A Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspective / Jean Webb -- 7. "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": The Child as Redeemer / Margot Hillel -- II. Nineteenth-Century Instances -- 8. Lear's India and the Politics of Nonsense / Sumanyu Satpathy -- 9. Decadence for Kids: Salgari's Corsaro Nero in Context / Ann Lawson Lucas -- 10. "In These Days of Scientific Charity": Orphanages and Social Engineering in Dear Enemy / Claudia Nelson -- III. Modern and Postmodern Instances -- 11. Refugee Status: The Displaced Southeast Asian Adolescent in Post-1975 Life and Literature / Alida Allison -- 12. The Sky Is Falling: Children as Environmental Subjects in Contemporary Picture Books / Clare Bradford -- 13. Playing with Frames: Spatial Images in Children's Fiction / Cheryl McMillan -- 14. We Are All in the Dumps with Bakhtin: Humor and the Holocaust / Lydia Williams -- IV. Science Fiction and Fantasy -- 15. Shifting Shapes of Fear in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife / Millicent Lenz -- 16. The Ethical Dimension of Children's Literature: A Study of Drejcek in Trije Marsovcki (Drejcek and the Three Martians) / Metka Kordigel -- V. Masculinities -- 17. Uneasy Men in the Land of Oz / Yoshido Junko -- 18. Representations of Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Fiction / Kerry Mallan -- 19. Leaving the Men to Drown? Fin de Siecle Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Children's Fiction / Beverley Pennell -- VI. Cyberculture -- 20. Welcome to the Game: Cyberspace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction / Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs -- 21. Competency and Resistance: A Double Perspective on Teaching Books to Children in the Next Millennium / Leona W. Fisher.