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E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy : a children's classic at 100
- Title
- E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy : a children's classic at 100 / edited by Raymond E. Jones.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jones, Raymond E.
- Description
- xxv, 273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Children's Literature Association centennial studies series ; no. 3
- Uniform Title
- Children's Literature Association centennial studies ; no. 3.
- Subjects
- Children's stories, English > History and criticism
- Children > Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
- Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Story of the amulet
- Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Five children and it
- Nesbit, E (Edith), 1858-1924 > Phoenix and the carpet
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The "it" girl (and boy) : ideologies of gender in the Psammead trilogy / Claudia Nelson -- Ch. 2. A momentary hunger : Fabianism and didacticism in E. Nesbit's writing for children / Monica Flegel -- Ch. 3. The beginning of the end : writing empire in E. Nesbit's Psammead books / Mavis Reimer -- Ch. 4. Generic manipulation and mutation : E. Nesbit's Psammead series as early magical realism / Teya Rosenberg -- Ch. 5. Materiality, the wish, and the marvelous : E. Nesbit's comic spirituality in the Psammead trilogy / Naomi Wood -- Ch. 6. Communicating humor in E. Nesbit's fantasy trilogy / Donna R. White -- Ch. 7. Where it was, there shall five children be : staging desire in five children and it / David Rudd -- Ch. 8. Textual building blocks : Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit's literary borrowings in five children and it / Jan Susina -- Ch. 9. Five children and it : some parallels with the nineteenth-century moral tale / Ann Dowker -- Ch. 10. News from E. Nesbit : The story of the amulet and the socialist utopia / Suzanne Rahn -- Ch. 11. The amulet and other stories of time / Julia Briggs -- Ch. 12. "Exactly as it was"? : H. R. Millar's expansions and subversions of the Psammead trilogy / Jennifer Marchant -- Ch. 13. Only half magic : Edward Eager's revision of Nesbit's Psammead trilogy / Esther Gilman Richey.
- ISBN
- 0810854015 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780810854017 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005034242
- OCLC
- ocm62408611
- 62408611
- SCSB-5338246
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries