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

Maria Sachiko Cecire is Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of the Experimental Humanities concentration at Bard College, USA; Hannah Field is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex, UK; Kavita Mudan Finn is a visiting assistant professor at Southern New Hampshire University, USA; Malini Roy is a freelance writer and editor in Germany.

Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of Play



Part 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults



1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt



2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh Barai



Part 2 Real-World Places



3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano



4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi



5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD Elzette Steenkamp



Part 3 Traversing the Imaginary



6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire



7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet Ruth Feingold



8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot Stafford



Part 4 Book Space



9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field



10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine Renaud



Epilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman