ANN LAWSON LUCAS is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull.

• Introduction: The Past in the Present of Children's Literature by Ann Lawson LucasPresenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics: Theoretical ApproachesFiction versus History: History's Ghosts by Danielle ThalerFrom Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars: a Re-reading by Rolf RomørenHistorical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction by Deborah StevensonMyths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and FictionIn and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc by Maurice Boutet de Monvel by Isabelle Nières-ChevrelRe-inventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and English Children's Literature by Penny BrownHistory and Collective Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young by Francesca BlockeelThe Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature by Tina L. HanlonAdventures in HistoryConstructions of History in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books by Thomas Kullmann'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India (1884) and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess (1994) by Dennis ButtsColonial, PostcolonialDoctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism by David SteegePicturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children by Clare BradfordNarrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence by Paula T. ConnollyNarrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine in Recent Stories for Children by Celia KeenanWar, PostwarOn the Use of Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth by Zohar ShavitReverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature by Susan TebbuttWar Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei (1993) by Gillian LatheyModern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place"House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War by Linda HallThe Past Re-Imagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels after World War Two by Adrienne E. GavinEngland's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House by Pamela KnightsMasculine, Feminism--and the History of FantasyRe-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle by Tony WatkinsThe "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet by Yoshida JunkoWitch-figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subarltern and the Subversive by John StephensThe Future for Children's LiteratureThe Duty of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite! by Jean PerrotSelected BibliographyIndex

ANN LAWSON LUCAS is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull.

• Introduction: The Past in the Present of Children's Literature by Ann Lawson LucasPresenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics: Theoretical ApproachesFiction versus History: History's Ghosts by Danielle ThalerFrom Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars: a Re-reading by Rolf RomørenHistorical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction by Deborah StevensonMyths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and FictionIn and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc by Maurice Boutet de Monvel by Isabelle Nières-ChevrelRe-inventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and English Children's Literature by Penny BrownHistory and Collective Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young by Francesca BlockeelThe Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature by Tina L. HanlonAdventures in HistoryConstructions of History in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books by Thomas Kullmann'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India (1884) and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess (1994) by Dennis ButtsColonial, PostcolonialDoctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism by David SteegePicturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children by Clare BradfordNarrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence by Paula T. ConnollyNarrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine in Recent Stories for Children by Celia KeenanWar, PostwarOn the Use of Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth by Zohar ShavitReverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature by Susan TebbuttWar Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei (1993) by Gillian LatheyModern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place"House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War by Linda HallThe Past Re-Imagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels after World War Two by Adrienne E. GavinEngland's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House by Pamela KnightsMasculine, Feminism--and the History of FantasyRe-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle by Tony WatkinsThe "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet by Yoshida JunkoWitch-figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subarltern and the Subversive by John StephensThe Future for Children's LiteratureThe Duty of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite! by Jean PerrotSelected BibliographyIndex

ANN LAWSON LUCAS is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull.

• Introduction: The Past in the Present of Children's Literature by Ann Lawson LucasPresenting the Past--Writers, Books, Critics: Theoretical ApproachesFiction versus History: History's Ghosts by Danielle ThalerFrom Literary Text to Literary Field: Boys' Fiction in Norway between the Two World Wars: a Re-reading by Rolf RomørenHistorical Friction: Shifting Ideas of Objective Reality in History and Fiction by Deborah StevensonMyths Modernized: Adapting Archetypes from Fact and FictionIn and Out of History: Jeanne d'Arc by Maurice Boutet de Monvel by Isabelle Nières-ChevrelRe-inventing the Maid: Images of Joan of Arc in French and English Children's Literature by Penny BrownHistory and Collective Memory in Contemporary Portuguese Literature for the Young by Francesca BlockeelThe Descendants of Robinson Crusoe in North American Children's Literature by Tina L. HanlonAdventures in HistoryConstructions of History in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Books by Thomas Kullmann'Tis a Hundred Years Since: G. A. Henty's With Clive in India (1884) and Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess (1994) by Dennis ButtsColonial, PostcolonialDoctor Dolittle and the Empire: Hugh Lofting's Response to British Colonialism by David SteegePicturing Australian History: Visual Texts in Nonfiction for Children by Clare BradfordNarrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing Violence by Paula T. ConnollyNarrative Challenges: The Great Irish Famine in Recent Stories for Children by Celia KeenanWar, PostwarOn the Use of Books for Children in Creating the German National Myth by Zohar ShavitReverberations of the Anne Frank Diaries in Contemporary German and British Children's Literature by Susan TebbuttWar Boys: The Autobiographical Representation of History in Text and Image in Michael Foreman's War Boy and Tomi Ungerer's Die Gedanken sind frei (1993) by Gillian LatheyModern, Postmodern: Questions of Time and Place"House and Garden": The Time-Slip Story in the Aftermath of the Second World War by Linda HallThe Past Re-Imagined: History and Literary Creation in British Children's Novels after World War Two by Adrienne E. GavinEngland's Dark Ages? The North-East in Robert Westall's The Wind Eye and Andrew Taylor's The Coal House by Pamela KnightsMasculine, Feminism--and the History of FantasyRe-Presenting a History of the Future: Dan Dare and Eagle by Tony WatkinsThe "Masculine Mystique" Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet by Yoshida JunkoWitch-figures in Recent Children's Fiction: The Subarltern and the Subversive by John StephensThe Future for Children's LiteratureThe Duty of Internet Internationalism: Roald Dahls of the World, Unite! by Jean PerrotSelected BibliographyIndex