Laura Tosi is a professor of English literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her research is in Elizabethan drama and children’s literature. She has published works on literary fairy tales and adaptation, and co-edited the first history of English-language children’s literature written in Italian. Peter Hunt is a professor emeritus of English and children’s literature at Cardiff University, UK. He has lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in 23 countries, and has produced 30 books and 500 papers and reviews on the subject.

“Stimulating and well-structured, with in text references that connect sections addressing related topics, and careful handling of translation issues...an excellent tool both for students first approaching transnational children's literature and for scholars performing advanced studies in nineteenth-century Italian and/or English children's literature or transnational comparative literature.”—English Studies

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart One. Theories, Choices and Contexts1. Alice Meets Pinocchio: Parallel Readings, National Stereotypes and Cultural Associations2. Books, Canons and Characters: Pinocchio in Wonderland and Alice in Tuscany3. Carlo and Charles: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio, England in the Age of AlicePart Two. Origins: Folktale, ­Fairy-Tale and Fantasy deleteTraditions4. Pinocchio as fiaba, Alice as ­Fairy-Tale: Folktale and ­Fairy-Tale Traditions5. Fantasy and Form in Alice and PinocchioPart Three. New Journeys: Postmodernist deleteExperiments with Alice and Pinocchio and Parallel Genre Readings in Empire Fictions6. The Postmodernist Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Adventures in Transnational and Transtextual Identities7. Childhood, School and Empire in Italy and the UK: Hughes and De Amicis, Henty and SalgariAppendix: “Strange Meeting in ­Wonder-Tuscany” by Peter HuntChapter NotesWorks CitedIndex