Table of Contents
Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography
Table of Contents
Introduction – Aïda Hudson
PART I: Geographical Imaginaries: The Old World and the New
1. Pullman and Imperialism: Navigating the Geographic Imagination in The Golden Compass – Cory Sampson
2. Nineteenth-Century British Children’s Literature and the North – Colleen M. Franklin
3. Envisioning Ireland: Landscape and Longing in Children’s Literature – Margot Hillel
4. From Vanity to World’s Fair: the Landscape of John Bunyan’s Allegory in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress – Shannon Murray
5. Old World, New World, Other World: Overcoming Prosaic Landscape with The Golden Pine Cone – Linda Knowles
6. Healing Relationships with the Natural Environment by Reclaiming Indigenous Space in Aaron Paquette’s Lightfinder – Petra Fachinger
INTERLUDE
7. History, Hills, and Lowlands: In Conversation with Janet Lunn – Aïda Hudson
PART II: Gardens and Green Places
8. How Does Your Garden Grow? The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children’s Picture Books – Melissa Li Sheung Ying
9. Into the (Not So) Wild: Nature Without and Within in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows – Alan West
INTERLUDE
10. Earth, Sea and Sky Writing in Becca at Sea – Deirdre F. Baker
PART III: Fantasy Worlds and Re-enchantment
11. The Imaginary North in Eileen Kernaghan's The Snow Queen – Joanne Findon
12. Camping Out on the Quest: the Landscape of Boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Sarah Fiona Winters
13. Sky Sailing: Steampunk’s Re-enchantment of Flight – Christine Bolus-Reichert
14. Mythic Re-Enchantment: The Imaginative Geography of Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet – Monika Hilder
PART IV: Space and Gender
15. Female Places in Earthsea – Peter Hynes
16. Dancing and Hinting at Worlds in Theatre for Young Audiences – Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
POSTLUDE
17. Following the Path of the Unconscious in the Owen Skye Books, and Others – Alan Cumyn
Works Cited
Contributors
Index