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Direct linkHudson, Glenda A. – Children's Literature in Education, 2006
This article considers J.M. Barrie's satirical treatment of the Platonic doctrine of reminiscence in "Peter Pan," and how Barrie's work both honors and undercuts it. It will first analyze the Platonic notion of the doctrine of reminiscence in Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). It will then…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Victorian Literature, Poetry, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedHannabuss, Stuart – Children's Literature in Education, 1983
Argues that the works of G.A. Henty are a phenomenon worthy of study for the literary historian and examines some of the main reactions to his work at and since his time. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Peer reviewedKearney, Anthony – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Examines the obsession with gruesome, nightmarish situations in Victorian children's literature. (SRT)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fables, Fantasy, Folk Culture
Peer reviewedMcGeorge, Colin – Children's Literature in Education, 1998
Examines British and American 19th-century classroom readers and their treatment of death. Quantitatively analyzes several series, using a computer database for each volume. Finds that school readers reflected the Victorians' preoccupation with death and helped socialize children into the Victorian sense that death was ever at hand. (PA)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Death, Educational History, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMerchant, Peter – Children's Literature in Education, 1989
Reviews literature from the first quarter of the nineteenth-century Victorian period. Examines how several Victorian novelists constructed new kinds of heroic stories, combining moral instruction with dynamic storytelling for their young audience. (MG)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
