E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy

Raymond E. Jones is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, the University of Alberta. He is author of Characters in Children's Literature (1997) and of articles on children's authors ranging from Maurice Sendak and Philippa Pearce to Monica Hughes and Michael Bedard. He is co-author, with Jon C. Stott, of Canadian Children's Books: A Guide to Authors and Illustrators (2000) and co-editor, with Jon C. Stott, of A World of Stories: Traditional Tales for Children (2006).

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. The "It" Girl (and Boy): Ideologies of Gender in the Psammead TrilogyChapter 3 Chapter 2. A Momentary Hunger: Fabianism and Didacticism in E. Nesbit's Writing for ChildrenChapter 4 Chapter 3. The Beginning of the End: Writing Empire in E. Nesbit's Psammead BooksChapter 5 Chapter 4. Generic Manipulation and Mutation: E. Nesbit's Psammead Series as Early Magical RealismChapter 6 Chapter 5. Materiality, the Wish, and the Marvelous: E. Nesbit's Comic Spirituality in the Psammead TrilogyChapter 7 Chapter 6. Communicating Humor in E. Nesbit's Fantasy TrilogyChapter 8 Chapter 7. Where It Was, There Shall Five Children Be: Staging Desire in Five Children and ItChapter 9 Chapter 8. Textual Building Blocks: Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit's Literary Borrowings in Five Children and ItChapter 10 Chapter 9. Five Children and It: Some Parallels with the Nineteenth-Century Moral TaleChapter 11 Chapter 10. News from E. Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet and the Socialist UtopiaChapter 12 Chapter 11. The Amulet and Other Stories of TimeChapter 13 Chapter 12. "Exactly As It Was"? H.R. Millar's Expansions and Subversions of the Psammead TrilogyChapter 14 Chapter 13. Only Half Magic: Edward Eager's Revision of Nesbit's Psammead TrilogyPart 15 About the Editor and Contributors

...the collection offers an enticing array of shifting perspectives...The pleasure of these essays lies not only in their individual arguments but also in the way they creatively challenge and complement each other, demonstrating the vitality of contemporary Nesbit criticism.