Children's Literature: Volume 21

Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association

by R. H. W. Dillard (Editor), Christine Doyle Francis (Editor), Julie Pfeiffer (Editor)

Articles: Reluctant Lords and Lame Princes: Engendering the Male Child In Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Fiction, by Alan Richardson / Of Dolls and Girls In Nineteenth-Century France, by Valérie C. Lastinger / From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority In Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu, by Len Hatfield / The Voice of Solitude: The Children's Verse of Walter de la Mare, by Martha Bremser / Mistaken Identity: Russell Hoban's Mouse and His Child, by Valerie Krips / Metafiction and Interpretation: William Mayne's Salt River Times, Winter Quarters, and Drift, by John Stephens / Arabic Adventurers and American Investigators: Cultural Values In Adolescent Detective Fiction, by Sylvia Patterson Iskander

Varia: "A Hard Night," A Contemporary Chinese Story, by Yu Chai Fang, translated with an introduction by Wang Lin / Additional Thoughts on East Slavic "Dirge" Lullabies: The Hunting Song, by Sheryl A. Spitz / A Lithuanian Folktale, by Feenie Ziner

Reviews: An Ambivalent Revolution, by Ian Wojcik-Andrews / Changing Agendas, by Ruth B. Bottigheimer / Questions of Power, by Gary D. Schmidt / A Committed, Passionate Voice, by Peter F. Neumeyer / Reappraising the Puritan Past, by Anne Scott MacLeod / A Soaring Look At the Picture Book, by William Moebius / Obvious Subversions, by Lois R. Kuznets / Link In a Missing Chain, by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser / Dramatic Victorians, by Jan Susina

Dissertations of Note, by Rachel Fordyce / Index to Volumes 16-20, by Samantha Wilcox

264 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 1993