Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.Anja Müller is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany.

• ContentsList of FiguresSeries Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Canon Studies and Children’s LiteratureBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Anja MüllerPrelude: A Tale of Canons and Classics – Definition Impossible?Peter Hunt Part I Canons, Cultural Capital and Policies of Community BuildingChapter 1 Nation Building and Children’s Literary Canons: The Israeli Test-Case Yael DarrChapter 2 Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children’s LiteratureAnja Müller, Simone Herrmann and Franziska BurstynChapter 3 Firing the Canon! Geoffrey Trease’s Campaign for an Alternative Children’s Canon in 1930’s BritainKimberley ReynoldsChapter 4 Canon Formation in the Soviet Union: The Case of Swift as an Author of a Children’s ClassicMichael DüringChapter 5 Historical Twists and Turns in the Polish Canon of Children’s LiteratureAnna Maria Czernow and Dorota MichułkaPart II The Challenges of the Canon: Genre, Gender, Avant-garde Chapter 6 The Origins of Modernism in Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen’s Authorship and Canon StudiesHelene HøyrupChapter 7 Canon and German Avant-garde Children’s Literature of the 1920s and 1930s: A Paradoxical Relationship Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerChapter 8 Genre, Gender and Canon Formation: The Case of Laura RichardsEtti Gordon GinzburgChapter 9 "Girls Like it Most": Challenging Gendered Canons and Paracanons in the Case of The Secret GardenAlison WallerPart III Keeping the Gate – Agents in Canon FormationChapter 10 The Perks of Being Talked About: Norms of Evaluation Informing the Canonization of Astrid Lindgren’s Oeuvre in the Dutch Language AreaSara Van den BosscheChapter 11 The Junior Literary Guild and the Making of New Canonical Works: The Case of Waterless MountainAnne Morey Chapter 12 Visions and Values: The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First CenturyErica HateleyChapter 13 Finally Coming Together? The Bridging Role of the Adolescent Novel in the NetherlandsHelma Lierop-DebrauwerEditors and ContributorsIndex