ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
BA PROGRAMME 2015-16
EN 3225 – Children’s Literature
Course Leader : Adam Roberts
EN 3225 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Course Teachers: Adam Roberts, Adam Lively
Scope of the Course.
This course explores Children’s Literature from the post-Roussean Romantic
reconceptualization of ‘the child’ at the end of the eighteenth-century to the
present day.
Aims of the Course.
The course aims to provide students with the chance to study a broad range of
writing for children from the late eighteenth-century through to the present
day.
Learning Outcomes.
After taking this course, students will have:
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Acquired a detailed, critical sense of the larger developments of
children’s literature from the 19th- to the21st-centuries
Developed critical awareness of the main critical debates concerning
childhood, development and literature.
Reached the place where they are able to discuss their writing in a
number of contextual, genre and theoretical contexts
As a Year 3 whole-unit course; the course will draw on the by-now
considerable body of critical expertise and experience students bring with
them, both in terms of critical/theoretical perspectives and the larger sense of
a wider and appropriate reading.
Teaching and learning methods.
Teaching will centre on twenty one-hour lectures, followed by twenty
associated one-hour seminars. Attendance to the lectures is not compulsory,
but students are strongly advised to attend them, since seminar discussions
may focus on the issues raised in the lectures.
Attendance to the seminars, however, is compulsory, and, if you have a valid
reason for not attending you will need to inform the course leader in advance,
either by e-mail (a.c.roberts@rhul.ac.uk) or in person.
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AUTUMN TERM
EN3225 Childrens Literature
Week 1. Children’s Literature: definitions and histories
Week 2. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm
Week 3. Isaac Watts, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use
of Children (1715)
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13439/pg13439.html
William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1802)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20860
Week 4. Frederic W Farrar, Eric, or, Little by Little (1858)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23126/23126-h/23126-h.htm
Week 5. Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
(1863)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1018
READING WEEK
Week 6. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Through the
Looking Glass (1871)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11
Week 7. Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902
Week 8. J M Barrie, Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
Week 9. Early Disney: the first five animated features [Snow White (1937);
Pinocchio (1940); Fantasia (1940); Dumbo (1941); Bambi (1942)]
Week 10. J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937)
SPRING TERM
Week 11. Enid Blyton Five on a Treasure Island (1942)
Week 12.C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Week 13. Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Week 14. J K Rowling, Harry Potter (1997-2007)
Week 15. Toy Story 3 (2010)
READING WEEK
Weeks 16-20 Reactions
The five final weeks of the second term will be student-lead: students will be
divided into groups of 3/4, and each group will select a children’s text not
otherwise studied on the course, and lead seminar discussion on it. These can
be late 20th- or early 21st-century children’s texts, but each text must be
agreed, and reasonably easy to obtain—the whole group will have to read it,
after all. Possibilities will be discussed with your seminar leader, and the
group.
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Students may wish to lead the class on specific examples of 21st-century
children’s literature, either in book, short-story, picture book or cinematic
form; or to look at contemporary children’s literature under the rubric of
broader theoretical approaches, such as feminism; psychoanalysis;
postcolonialism; language and linguistics; postmodernism.
If the class is not moved to decide for itself, the course leader will choose for
them.
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Non-assessed essay.
Each student will write one non-assessed essay, which must be 1500-2000
words, to be submitted by the last day of the first term, no later than 4.00 p.m.
Extensions to essay deadlines must be negotiated in advance, and will only be
given for genuine causes.
Presentations.
Each student will have to make a brief (no more than 5-10 mins.) presentation
in one of the seminars, either individually or with other students. The
presentation should be on any aspect of the book/film/TV series that students
find interesting and worth exploring, but it should not be either a summary of
the plot or given in the form of a written lecture.
Examination.
The course is examined via one or two assessed essays, to be chosen from
a list circulated after the final class. If you elect to write one essay it must be
between 7500-8000 words in length; if two, together they must not exceed
8000 words in length.
Books.
Primary texts. For the first classes of term, editions of relevant texts are
available for free online, or if you prefer you can buy or borrow from the
library any edition. For later works, which are still in copyright, you may have
to shell out.
Suggested editions for you to buy are listed in the week-by-week breakdown of
classes that follows. You do not have to buy these specific editions – they are
merely suggestions, and if you can find the books cheaper in another format
that’s fine.
The best strategy for getting a strong sense of children’s literature and its
development is to read widely, not just the texts listed here but other works by
these authors, and other writers too. The wider range of primary material you
can bring to bear, the better sense of the contexts and issues you will have, and
so the better your critical response will tend to be.
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Criticism. General Critical texts
Ann Alston, The Family in English Children’s Literature (Routledge 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dDuKqey74SoC&lpg=PA53&dq=David%20Rudd%20Bly
ton&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=David%20Rudd%20Blyton&f=false
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance
of Fairy Tales (1976)
Humphrey Carpenter, Secret Gardens: a Study of the Golden Age of
Children’s Literature (1985; 2nd ed 2009)
Matthew Grenby, Children's Literature (Edinburgh University Press 2008)
----, The Child Reader 1700-1840 (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011)
Peter Hunt, Criticism, Theory, and Children's Literature (Oxford: Blackwell
1991)
----- (ed), International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
(Routledge 1996)
Andrew O’Hagan, ‘Light Entertainment’, LRB 34:21 (8 Nov 2012), 5-8
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n21/andrew-ohagan/light-entertainment
Kenneth B Kidd, Freud in Oz: at the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and
Children’s Literature(University of Minnesota Press 2011)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv88k
Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional
Child (Clarendon Press 1994)
-----, Children's Literature: New Approaches (Palgrave 2004)
Robyn McCallum, Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: the dialogic
construction of subjectivity (1999)
Founders 809.89283 MAC
Michael Rustin; Margaret Rustin, Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in
Modern Children's Fiction (Verso 1987)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=96XnN4Df_8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rustin,+Narratives+of+Love+and+Loss&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u
tzBUaqDBqWr0AXd1ICgDA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
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Week-by-week breakdown.
Week 1. Children’s Literature: definitions and histories
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, ou De l’éducation (1762)
You are not required to need to read the whole of this novel, but you will need
to be aware of the main arguments Rousseau makes about childhood; and I
would certainly encourage you to read it if you can. It is available online in
French and English translation in several forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#External_links
David Archard, Children: Rights and Childhood (1993; 2nd ed. Routledge
2004)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zSvu0mRgFzQC&lpg=PA30&dq=Rousseau%20
child&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=Rousseau%20child&f=false
Bedford: 323.4 ARC
Carolyn L. Burke and Joby G. Copenhaver, ‘Animals as People in Children's
Literature’, Language Arts 81 (2004), 205-13
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41483397
Harry Eiss (ed), Images of the Child (Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press
1994)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R6d0zUTtbsC&lpg=PA320&dq=John%20MacKay%20Shaw.%20%22Poetry%20for%20Children
%20of%20Two%20Centuries%22.&pg=PP6#v=onepage&q=John%20MacKay%20Shaw.%20
%22Poetry%20for%20Children%20of%20Two%20Centuries%22.&f=false
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Week 2. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance
of Fairy Tales (1976)
Founders 155.413 BET
[See also: Alan Dundes, ‘Bruno Bettelheim's Uses of Enchantment and Abuses of
Scholarship’. Journal of American Folklore 104 (1999), 74-83
http://www.jstor.org/stable/541135]
Donald Haase, ‘Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and
Bibliography’, Marvels and Tales 14:1 (2000), 15-63
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41380741
Susan Sellers, Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction
(Palgrave 2001) Founders 809.399287 SEL
Jack Zipes Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for
Children and the Process of Civilization, (1985; 2nd ed, Routledge 2006)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TYUJifSmp_YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jack+Zipes&
hl=en&sa=X&ei=xui-UcW-Gqem0QW_g4DACg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw
Bedford Library 398.21 ZIP
Jack Zipes, Fairy Tale As Myth, Myth As Fairy Tale (University Press of
Kentucky 1994)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ld5i71RKaw4C&lpg=PP1&dq=Jack%20Zipes&
pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Jack%20Zipes&f=false
Bedford Library 398.21 ZIP
Jack Zipes, The Irresistible Fairy Tale: the Cultural History of a Genre
(Princeton Univ. Press 2012)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fKEbyf_kzUC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22fairy%20tale%22&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=%22fairy%20tale
%22&f=false
Zipes (ed) The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford 2006)
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Week 3. Isaac Watts, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language
for the Use of Children (1715)
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13439/pg13439.html
William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
(1802)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20860
Gillian Avery, ‘Written for Children: Two Eighteenth-Century English Fairy Tales’,
Marvels and Tales 16 (2002), 143-55
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41388624
Gillian Brown, ‘The Metamorphic Book: Children's Print Culture in the Eighteenth
Century’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006), 351-62
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053476
M O Grenby, The Child Reader, 1700-1840 (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011)
Bedford: 028.5509410903 GRE
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OKUoiVWqVRAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Grenby+
Child+Reader&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4Pi-UbClKqrE0QX5s4GIDg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA
Andrew O'Malley, The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late
Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2013)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=koOT9W_Kc24C&lpg=PA1&dq=inauthor%3A%
22Andrew%20O'Malley%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
It’s not specifically about children’s literature, but Catherine Brown’s medievalist monograph
Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic and the Poetics of Didacticism (Stanford Univ. Press
1998) is fascinating on the roots of didacticism.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1EYcTyMGi4YC&lpg=PP1&dq=didacticism&pg=PP6#v=
onepage&q=didacticism&f=false
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Week 4. Frederic W Farrar, Eric, or, Little by Little (1858)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23126/23126-h/23126-h.htm
David Alderson, Mansex Fine: Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in
Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Manchester Univ. Press 1998)
Ian Anstruther, Dean Farrar and “Eric”: A Study of Eric, or Little by Little
and its Author (Haggerston Press 2002)
Laura C Berry, The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel (Charlottesvile
Univ. Press 1999)
Founders: 827.39352 BER
Jenny Holt, ‘Beatly Erikin’, in Public School Literature, Civic Education and
the Politics of Male Adolescence (Ashgate 2008), 83-112
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TkGvERtJd9YC&printsec=frontcover&source=
gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
A Jamieson, ‘F. W. Farrar and Novels of the Public Schools’, British Journal of
Educational Studies 16 (1968), 271-78 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3119290
Isabel Quigly, The Heirs of Tom Brown: the English Public School Story
(Faber 2009)
Founders: 820.99282 QUI
William E Winn, ‘Tom Brown's Schooldays and the Development of “Muscular
Christianity”’’, Church History 29 (1960), 64-73 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3161617
A list of boarding schools in fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school#Boarding_schools_in_literature
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Week 5. Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a
Land Baby (1863)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1018
Humphrey Carpenter, ‘Parson Lot Takes a Cold Bath: Charles Kingsley and
The Water-Babies’, in Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of
Children's Literature (Faber 1985). Founders: 820.99282 CAR
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xcdz8fOkiTQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Charles Kingsley, Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore (1855)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WXAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=inauthor:%22Charles+Kingsl
ey%22+Glaucus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ewS_Ue_4EYur0gWBtoH4AQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA
Francis Kingsley, ed., Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life
(London: Macmillan and Co., 1901)
Colin Manlove, ‘Charles Kingsley and the Water Babies’, Modern Fantasy:
Five Studies (Cambridge 1975), 18-54. Founders: 828.3915 MAN
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cgw4AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA13&dq=Kingsley%20Water%2
0Babies&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=Kingsley%20Water%20Babies&f=false
Jessica Straley, ‘Of Beasts and Boys: Kingsley, Spencer, and the Theory of
Recapitulation’, Victorian Studies 49 (2007), 583-609
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4626369
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Week 6. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Through the
Looking Glass (1871)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11
The Lewis Carroll Society maintains a useful set of links to research and
publications:
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/randr.html
Jerome Bump, ‘Soaring with the Dodo: Essays on Lewis Carroll's Life and Art
by Edward Guiliano’ et al [reviewed], Victorian Studies 28 (1985), 316-317
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3827170
William Empson, ‘Alice in Wonderland: the Child as Swain’, in Some Versions
of Pastoral (1935). Founders: 820.913 EMP
Sarah Gilead, ‘Magic Abjured: Closure in Children's Fantasy Fiction’, PMLA
106:2 (1991), 277-293
http://www.jstor.org/stable/462663
U. C. Knoepflmacher, ‘Avenging Alice: Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll’
Nineteenth-Century Literature 41 (1986), 299-328
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3044929
Robert Phillips (ed) Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll’s Dreamchild seen
through the Critics’ Looking Glasses 1865-1971 (Harmondsworth; Penguin
1981). Founders: 827 CAR/A
Rose Lovell Smith, ‘The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carroll’s Reader’,
Criticism 45 (2003), 383-415 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23126396
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Week 7. Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902
The standard life is still Richard Ellman’s Oscar Wilde (1987) [see also Horst
Schroeder: Additions and Corrections to Richard Ellmann's OSCAR WILDE
(2nd ed. 2002)]
Founders: 827 WIL/E
John-Charles Duffy, ‘Gay-Related Themes in the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde’
Victorian Literature and Culture 29:2 (2001), 327-349
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25058557
Justin Jones, ‘Morality's Ugly Implications in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales’,
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 51:4 (2011), 883-903
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41349042
Jarlath Killeen, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Ashgate 2007)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DN9V5qb9RF4C&lpg=PA21&dq=Oscar%20Wilde%20H
appy%20Prince&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=Oscar%20Wilde%20Happy%20Prince&f=false
Peter Raby (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge
University Press 1997)
Founders: 827 WIL/R
Guy Willoughby, ‘Jesus as a Model for Selfhood in The Happy Prince and
Other Tales’, in Art and Christhood: the Aesthetics of Oscar Wilde
(Associated Univ. Press 1993), 19-33
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gdHvLJyOqhUC&lpg=PA19&dq=Oscar%20Wilde%20Happy%2
0Prince&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=Oscar%20Wilde%20Happy%20Prince&f=false
Naomi Wood, ‘Creating the Sensual Child: Paterian Aesthetics, Pederasty, and
Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales’, Marvels & Tales 16:2 (2002), 156-170
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41388625
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Week 8. J M Barrie, Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
Andrew Birkin, J M Barrie and the Lost Boys (1979)
Founders: 828 BAR/D
Lester Friedman, Allison Kavey, Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the
Popular Imagination (Rutgers University Press 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=diRvyYPK0zgC&lpg=PP1&dq=Peter%20Pan&pg=PP1#v
=onepage&q=Peter%20Pan&f=false
Sarah Gilead, ‘Magic Abjured: Closure in Children's Fantasy Fiction’, PMLA
106:2 (1991), 277-293
http://www.jstor.org/stable/462663
Leonee Ormond, J M Barrie (Edinburgh Scottish Academic Press 1987)
Founders: 828 BAR/O
Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan: or, the Impossibility of Children’s
Fiction (1984; 2nd ed. University of Pennsylvania Press 1993)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ao1045IYK8sC&lpg=PP1&dq=Peter%20Pan&pg=PR4#v
=onepage&q=Peter%20Pan&f=false
[reviewed by Ann Jefferson, in Poetics Today 6:4 (1985), 794-796,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771972]
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Week 9. Disney: the first five feature films.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937); Pinocchio (1940); Fantasia (1940);
Dumbo (1941); Bambi (1942)
Mark Clague, ‘Playing in 'Toon: Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1940) and the
Imagineering of Classical Music’, American Music 22:1 (2004), 91-109
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592969
James Derby, ‘Anthropomorphism in Children's Literature or "Mom, My
Doll's Talking Again"’, Elementary English 47:2 (1970), 190-192
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41386644
Henry A Giroux and Grace Pollock, The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the
End of Innocence (Rowan and Littlefield 2010)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bOtMUf22qWMC&lpg=PP1&dq=Disney&pg=PR8#v=o
nepage&q=Disney&f=false
Mark Langer, ‘Regionalism in Disney Animation: Pink Elephants and Dumbo’,
Film History 4:4 (1990), 305-321
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815059
Sean Griffiths, Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company
from the Inside Out (New York University Press 2000)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=id1MiOWqirgC&lpg=PA240&dq=Disney%20Richard%2
0Shale&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=Disney%20Richard%20Shale&f=false
Susan Ohmer, ‘That Rags to Riches Stuff': Disney's Cinderella and the Cultural
Space of Animation’, Film History 5:2 (1993), 231-249
http://www.jstor.org/stable/27670722
Deborah Ross, ‘Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female
Imagination’, Marvels & Tales 18:1 (2004), 53-66
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41388684
Santiago Solis, ‘Snow White and the Seven "Dwarfs"—Queercripped’, Hypatia
22:1 (2007), 114-131
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4640047
Steven Watts, ‘Walt Disney: Art and Politics in the American Century’, The
Journal of American History 82:1 (1995), 84-110
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2081916
Richard Wunderlich, ‘The Tribulations of Pinocchio: How Social Change Can
Wreck a Good Story’, Poetics Today 13:1 Children's Literature (1992), 197-219
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1772798
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Week 10. J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937)
Douglas Anderson (ed) The Annotated Hobbit (Unwin Hyman 1988)
John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle Earth
(HarperCollins 2003)
Colin Manlove, Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge Univ. Press 1975)
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Modern_Fantasy.html?id=Cgw4AAAAIAAJ&redir_e
sc=y
Charles Moseley, J R R Tolkien (Northcote House/British Council 1997)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rMiUN8qeOBoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=John+Garth
,+Tolkien+and+the+Great+War&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DnfFUfepNYKd0AWWqoH4Ag&ved=0C
DkQ6AEwAA
Corey Olsen, Exploring J R R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” (Houghton Mifflin 2012)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KY0BDObXftUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hobbit&hl=en&sa=
X&ei=RwPCUd7sBpLI0AWq3oCwCw&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCA
John D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit: Mr Baggins (HarperCollins
2007)
Adam Roberts, The Riddles of the Hobbit (Palgrave 2013)
Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: how J.R.R.Tolkien Created a New
Mythology (2nd ed., HarperCollins 1992)
828 TOL/S
-----, J R R Tolkien: Author of the Century (London: HarperCollins 2000)
828 TOL/S
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SPRING TERM
Week 11. Enid Blyton Five on a Treasure Island (1942)
Enid Blyton Society page on Famous Five:
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/famous-five.php
Ann Alston, The Family in English Children’s Literature (Routledge 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dDuKqey74SoC&lpg=PA53&dq=David%20Rudd%20Bly
ton&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=David%20Rudd%20Blyton&f=false
Ken Follett, ‘Blyton, Blunkett & Bettleheim’, RSA Journal 145 (1998), 65-73
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41377331
Tana French and Shirley Kelly, ‘The Exoticness of Enid Blyton’, Books Ireland
293 (2007), 72
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20624230
Lucy Mangan, ‘Famous Five—In Their Own Words’, The Guardian 22 Dec
2005: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/22/booksforchildrenandteenagers.comment
David Ward, ‘Enid Blyton: the Grown-ups Favourite’, The Guardian 23 Aug
2004: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/aug/23/books.booksforchildrenandteenagers
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Week 12.C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Patricia Craig, ‘Narnia Revisited’, Irish Pages 3:2 (2006), 160-174
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30057448
Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C S Lewis
(HarperCollins 2006)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dAY14NW0KTQC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22Alan%20Jacobs%
22%20%22C%20S%20Lewis%22&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=%22Alan%20Jacobs%22%20%22
C%20S%20Lewis%22&f=false
Adam Roberts, ‘Lion, Witch and Wardrobe’
http://sibilantfricative.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/leo-maleficent-and-armoire.html
James Russell, ‘Narnia as a Site of National Struggle: Marketing, Christianity,
and National Purpose in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe"’ Cinema Journal 48:4 (2009), 59-76
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25619728
Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S.
Lewis (OUP 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wJY9cdkNy9kC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT4#v=onepage&q&f=fa
lse
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Week 13. Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
George Bodmer, ‘Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane, and Maurice Sendak: The
Picture as Literary Fairy Tale’, Marvels & Tales 17:1 (2003), 120-137
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41389903
Camille Hayward, ‘Sendak’s Heroic Trilogy: Where the Wild Things Are, In
the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There’, Merveilles & Contes 1:2 (1987), 97102
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41389918
Perry Nodelman, Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's
Picture Books (Univ. of Georgia Press 1988)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YHPmmt9VvF8C&lpg=PA52&dq=Where%20the%20Wi
ld%20Things%20Are&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=Where%20the%20Wild%20Things%20Are&f
=false
Lucy Rollin, ‘Frustrations in Maurice Sendak’s Picture Books’, in Lucy Rollin,
Mark I. West (eds), Psychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature
(Macfarland 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2M3iHCtpzRsC&lpg=PA79&dq=Where%20the%20Wild
%20Things%20Are&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q=Where%20the%20Wild%20Things%20Are&f=
false
Ellen Handler Spitz, Inside Picture Books (Yale Univ. Press 1999)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EwWb829rP0IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Picture+Books&hl=en
&sa=X&ei=dX3FUZfUM-Gm0QWE_YGYDQ&ved=0CGcQ6AEwBw
Joseph Stanton, ‘The Important Books: Appreciating the Children's Picture
Book as a Form of Art’, American Art 12:2
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3109268
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Week 14. J K Rowling, Harry Potter (1997-2007)
There is, of course, a wealth of online material about the Potter books,
including official sites for both Rowling and Warner Brothers, and a Potter
Wiki [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page] I’m sure I don’t need to
tell you about any of that.
Kate Behr, ‘“Same-as-Difference”: Narrative Transformations and Intersecting
Cultures in Harry Potter’, Journal of Narrative Theory 35:1 (2005), 112-132
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30224622
Claudia Fenske, Muggles, Monsters and Magicians: A Literary Analysis of
the Harry Potter Series (Peter Lang 2008)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=209bSZOwMYoC&lpg=PA422&dq=Robert%20Druce%2
0(1992)%20This%20Day%20Our%20Daily%20Fictions&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=Robert%20
Druce%20(1992)%20This%20Day%20Our%20Daily%20Fictions&f=false
Philip Nel, JK Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide (Continuum
2003)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qQYfoV62d30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rowling+Potter&hl=e
n&sa=X&ei=-hPCUZKhL4nD0QWL94HwBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen, ‘Naming Tropes and Schemes in J. K.
Rowling's Harry Potter Books’, The English Journal 98:6 (2009), 60-68
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40503461
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‘Why are so many of the best-known children’s books British or American?
Other countries have produced a single brilliant classic or series: Denmark, for
instance, has Andersen’s fairy tales, Italy has Pinocchio, France has Babar,
Finland has Moomintroll. A list of famous children’s books in English,
however, could easily take up the rest of this column. One explanation may be
that in Britain and America more people never quite grow up. They may
sometimes put on a good show of maturity, but secretly they remain children,
longing for the pleasures and privileges of childhood that once were, or were
said to be, theirs. And there are some reasons for them to do so.’ [Alison Lurie,
‘Not For Muggles’, New York Review of Books December 16, 1999]
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