Children's Literature: Volume 27

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

by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser (Editor), Francelia Butler (Editor)

Articles: "Dream Not of Other Worlds": Paradise Lost and the Child Reader, by Julie Pfeiffer / The "Omnipresent Aunt" and the Social Child: Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile Miscellany, by Etsuko Taketani / Constructing a Shared History: Black Pageantry for Children During the Harlem Renaissance, by Katharine Capshaw Smith / "Yours Most Loquaciously": Voice In Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, by Anne K. Phillips / Pollyanna and the Not So Glad Game, by Alice Mills / Lacan With Runt Pigs, by Karen Coats / Narrative Resolution: Photography In Adolescent Literature, by Roberta Seelinger Trites / Dada Knows Best: Growing Up "Surreal" with Dr. Seuss, by Philip Nel / The Structure of the Moral Dilemma In Shiloh, by Claudia Mills

Varia: Sacred Text and Secular Values, by Gillian Adams / Three Ways of Looking At Victorian Fantasies, by Jan Susina / Louisa May Alcott: New Texts and Contexts, by Christine Doyle / Instruction and Delight: Letters From a Father To His Children, by A. Waller Hastings / Additional "Variations": Further Developments In Feminist Theory and Children's Literature, by Anne K. Phillips / It's a Small-Minded World After All: International Perspectives On Children's Literature and Censorship, by Carolyn Sigher

Dissertations of Note, by Rachel Fordyce / Contributors and Editors / Index to Volumes 1-25, by Pamela K. Harer / Award Applications

336 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 1999