Children’s Literature

DANIELA CASELLI Lecturer in English Literature, University of Salford, UKNEIL COCKS Head of English, Southeast Essex College, Southend-on-Sea, UKLILA MARZ HARPER Instructor, Central Washington University, USAJACQUELINE LAZU Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University, USAJ HILLIS MILLER UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, USASARAH SPOONER Teaches at the University of Reading, UKCHRISTINE SUTPHIN Professor of English, Central Washington University, USASTEPHEN THOMSON Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, University of Reading, UKSUE WALSH Lecturer in Children's Literature and American Literature, University of Reading, UK

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Author and Authorship; S.Walsh Victorian Childhood; C.Sutphin Reading; J.H.Miller The Implied Reader; N.Cocks Children's Literature, Science and Faith; L.M.Harper The Child, The Family, The Relationship: S.Thomson Reading Intertextuality; D.Caselli National Identity; J.Lazu Landscapes; S.Spooner Index