E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy A Children's Classic at 100,9780810854017

E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy A Children's Classic at 100

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ISBN13: 9780810854017
ISBN10: 0810854015
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-04-13
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Press
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Summary

The year 2006 marks the hundredth anniversary of book publication of the final volume of the Psammead trilogy-Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904), and The Story of the Amulet (1906)-a remarkable series of fanta

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Raymond E. Jones
Chapter 1 The "It" Girl (and Boy): Ideologies of Gender in the Psammead Trilogy 1(16)
Claudia Nelson
Chapter 2 A Momentary Hunger: Fabianism and Didacticism in E. Nesbit's Writing for Children 17(22)
Monica Flegel
Chapter 3 The Beginning of the End: Writing Empire in E. Nesbit's Psammead Books 39(24)
Mavis Reimer
Chapter 4 Generic Manipulation and Mutation: E. Nesbit's Psammead Series as Early Magical Realism 63(26)
Teya Rosenberg
Chapter 5 Materiality, the Wish, and the Marvelous: E. Nesbit's Comic Spirituality in the Psammead Trilogy 89(22)
Naomi Wood
Chapter 6 Communicating Humor in E. Nesbit's Fantasy Trilogy 111(24)
Donna R. White
Chapter 7 Where It Was, There Shall Five Children Be: Staging Desire in Five Children and It 135(16)
David Rudd
Chapter 8 Textual Building Blocks: Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit's Literary Borrowings in Five Children and It 151(18)
Jan Susina
Chapter 9 Five Children and It: Some Parallels with the Nineteenth-Century Moral Tale 169(16)
Ann Dowker
Chapter 10 News from E. Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet and the Socialist Utopia 185(30)
Suzanne Rahn
Chapter 11 The Amulet and Other Stories of Time 215(16)
Julia Briggs
Chapter 12 "Exactly As It Was"? H.R. Millar's Expansions and Subversions of the Psammead Trilogy 231(24)
Jennifer Marchant
Chapter 13 Only Half Magic: Edward Eager's Revision of Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy 255(16)
Esther Gilman Richey
About the Editor and Contributors 271

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