Contents
Editor’s Preface x
Contributors xi
1 Introduction
Margaret Meek
1
I THEORY AND CRITICAL APPROACHES 14
2 Defining Children’s Literature and Childhood
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
15
3 History, Culture and Children’s Literature
Tony Watkins
30
4 Ideology
Charles Sarland
39
5 Linguistics and Stylistics
John Stephens
56
6 Reader-Response Criticism
Michael Benton
68
7 Psychoanalytical Criticism
Hamida Bosmajian
86
8 Feminist Criticism: From Sex-Role Stereotyping to Subjectivity
Lissa Paul
98
9 Illustration and Picture Books
Perry Nodelman
110
10 A Note on Bibliography
Peter Hunt
122
11 Intertextuality
Christine Wilkie
128
II TYPES AND GENRES 135
12 Early Texts Used by Children 136
Margaret Kinnell
