| Description |
xxv, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Children's Literature Association centennial studies series ; no. 3
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Children's Literature Association centennial studies ; no. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The "It" girl (and boy) : idoleogies of gender in the Psammead trilogy / Claudia Nelson -- A momentary hunger : Fabianism and didacticism in E. Nesbit's writing for children / Monica Flegel -- The beginning of the end : writing empire in E. Nesbit's Psammead books / Mavis Reimer -- Generic manipulation and mutation : E. Nesbit's Psammead series as early magical realism / Teya Rosenberg -- Materiality, the wish, and the marvelous : E. Nesbit's comic sprituality in the Psammead trilogy / Naomi Wood -- Communicating humor in E. Nesbit's fantasy trilogy / Donna R. White -- Where it was, there shall five children be : staging desire in Five children and it / David Rudd -- Textual building blocks : Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit's literary borrowings in Five children and it / Jan Susina -- Five children and it : some parallels with the nineteenth-century moral tale / Ann Dowker -- News from E. Nesbit : The story of the amulet and the socialist utopia / Suzanne Rahn -- The amulet and other stories of time / Julia Briggs -- "Exactly as it was"? H.R. Millar's expansions and subversions of the Psammead trilogy / Jennifer Marchant -- Only half magic : Edward Eager's revision of Nesbit's Psammead trilogy / Esther Gilman Richey. |
| Subject |
Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. Five children and it.
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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. Phoenix and the carpet.
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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. Story of the amulet.
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Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Raymond E.
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| ISBN |
0810854015 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780810854017 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780810854017 |
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