Space and Place in Children's Literature, 1789 to the Present

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' plac...

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Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children's book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldua, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child's relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children's literature.

List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play 1
Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults 1
Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places 23
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List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play 1
Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults 1
Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places 23
Peter Hunt
2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children’s Literature 39
Aneesh Barai
Part 2 R eal-world Places 3
The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: ‘The Little Merchants’ by Maria Edgeworth 57
Francesca Orestano
4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicanoa Children’s Picture Books 75
Renata Morresi
5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justice, and Belonging in Jenny Robson’s Savannah 2116 AD 95
Elzette Steenkamp
Part 3 Traversing the Imaginary
6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 111
Maria Sachiko Cecire
7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet 129
Ruth Feingold
8 Journeys through Bookland’s Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader 147
Margot Stafford
Part 4 Book Space
9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children’s Panorama 165
Hannah Field
10 The Child’s Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti’s Picture Books 193
Catherine Renaud
Epilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere 215
Philip Pullman
Index 241
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